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Weather Satellites: TIROS-N

TIROS-N - Television InfraRed Operational Satellite - Next-generation

Launch date: October 13, 1978

Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Launch vehicle: Atlas E/F

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:

To provide higher resolution, day and night quantitative environmental data on local and global scales with technologically superior instrumentation than that which was available on the ITOS/NOAA satellites.
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