[QuadList] 50th Anniversary of the First Weather Satellite

[Tim Stoffel]

On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 02:51 -0400, Scott Thomas wrote:
> http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100401_tiros.html
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> 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"
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> 
> 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.

It would have been an audio recorder of some sort, because there was not
enough power available in those day to power a fast-scan TV system.

Tim Stoffel