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Today, a fleet of geostationary (hovering at a fixed point above the equator) and polar-orbiting (traveling from pole to pole) satellites-- including a more recent, 2,288-pound TIROS, which sent back the picture at left-- provides not only an almost continuous view of weather patterns all over the globe, but also a flood of other data including vegetation cover on land, oceanic and atmospheric temperatures and particle activity surrounding the earth. The NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) program began with the launch of the first TIROS satellite in 1960. Two TIROS spacecraft and two DMSP spacecraft comprise the active constellation for both NASA and the Air Force. |
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