File:Pre-TIROS images Spac0035.jpg
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On August 4, 1959 the USAF fired Atlas-C 5,000 miles and recovered nose cone camera with photographs of one-sixth of earth's surface taken from 700 miles up, near Ascension Island. Mosaic of 3 photographs taken from a stabilized camera in the nose cone of an Atlas rocket fired from Cape Canaveral. The 3 photos were taken at an altitude of approximately 400 miles. This preceded the launch of TIROS I by 7 months. In :"Operational Use of Weather Satellites", U. S. Navy Research Facility, Norfolk, Virginia, March 1960. |
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Source | Image ID:spac0035, NOAA In Space Collection | ||||
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