Launch of ESSA I, the first satellite actually owned and operated by a forerunner of NOAA

Launch of ESSA I, the first satellite actually owned and operated by a forerunner of NOAA. Although the Weather Bureau used and studied the data from TIROS I - X, NASA operated these satellites. ESSA I was the first of the TIROS Operational Satellite (TOS) satellites.

Photo Category: Space - Rocket - Launch
Photo Location: Florida, Cape Canaveral
Photo Date: 1966 February 3