WEATHER CHECK
U.S. Satellite In Orbit (NZPA -Reuter—Copyright) CAPE KENNEDY. July 2 The United States today launched its tenth Tiros weather satellite into an orbit from which its two television cameras can keep an eye on the hurricane-breeding areas in the Atlantic in the months ahead. A three-stage Thor Delta rocket was blasted off to send the hatbox-shaped weather satellite off on the first stage of some complicated manoeuvering to get it into a near polar orbit 460 miles high over the Pacific west of Ecuador. Tiros X joins three other Tiros weather satellites still operating in space. These have sent back more than half a million pictures of weather patterns all over the earth in the last two years.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 15
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120WEATHER CHECK Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 15
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