[QuadList] 50th Anniversary of the First Weather Satellite

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_How Tiros Photographs the World  (including Russia) (Aug, 1960) _ 
(http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/15/how-tiros-photographs-the-world-including-
russia/)  SCIENCE AND MECHANICS
 
Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC  

See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/)  


In a message dated 4/2/2010 11:51:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
scottgfx at mac.com writes:

_http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100401_tiros.html_ 
(http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100401_tiros.html)    


>From the article: "TIROS-1, a polar-orbiting satellite, weighed 270 pounds  
and carried two cameras and two video recorders. Though the satellite only  
lasted 78 days"


So my question is; what kind  of "video recorder" would you put in a 
satellite in 1960? I'm also interested  in what kind of cameras it  had.
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