What do you know about Weather Satellites? 🤠

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A weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth.

The First weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was designed to measure cloud cover and resistance, but the poor axis of rotation kept it from collecting a notable amount of useful data. 

The first weather satellite to be considered a success was TISOR-1, launched by NASA on 1st April, 1960. 

This marked the first day when it became possible to be observe the Earth's weather conditions on a regular basis. 

The satellite designed to obtain the pictures of clouds was rocketed into space aboard a Throable launch vehicle on 1st April, 1960 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

The satellite was basically basically, a cylinder, with 18 flattened sides to mount solar power cells. 

The satellite was approximately 42 inches in diameter. 

22 inches high (including the projecting television camera lens) and had launch weight of approximately 128.4 kg including fuel, for small solid rockets to control the spin-over time of the satellite.

TIROS-1 operated for 78 days.

Funfact:-

There are over 2,500 satellites in orbit, around the Earth.

There are over 10,000 man-made objects orbiting, around the Earth.

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