Editing Weather satellite (section)

===1960s===
The first weather satellite to be considered a success was [[TIROS-1]], launched by NASA on April&nbsp;1, 1960.<ref name="apupi">{{cite news |title=U.S. Launches Camera Weather Satellite |work=[[The Fresno Bee]] |publisher=[[Associated Press|AP]] and [[United Press International|UPI]] |pages=1a, 4a |date=April 1, 1960}}</ref>  TIROS operated for 78&nbsp;days and proved to be much more successful than Vanguard&nbsp;2. Other early weather satellite programs include the 1962 Defense Satellite Applications Program (DSAP)<ref>[https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/2381749 Defense Meteorological Satellite Program] US Space Force</ref> and the 1964 Soviet [[Meteor (satellite)|Meteor series]].

[[Television Infrared Observation Satellite|TIROS]] paved the way for the [[Nimbus program]], whose technology and findings are the heritage of most of the Earth-observing satellites NASA and NOAA have launched since then.  Beginning with the [[Nimbus 3]] satellite in 1969, temperature information through the [[troposphere|tropospheric]] column began to be retrieved by satellites from the eastern Atlantic and most of the Pacific Ocean, which led to significant improvements to [[weather forecasting|weather forecasts]].<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Mariners Weather Log]]|title=SIRS and the Improved Marine Weather Forecast|author=National Environmental Satellite Center|publisher=Environmental Science Services Administration|pages=12–15|volume=14|number=1|date=January 1970}}</ref>

The ESSA and NOAA polar orbiting satellites followed suit from the late 1960s onward.  Geostationary satellites followed, beginning with the [[Applications Technology Satellites|ATS]] and [[Synchronous Meteorological Satellite|SMS]] series in the late&nbsp;1960s and early&nbsp;1970s, then continuing with the GOES series from the 1970s onward.  Polar orbiting satellites such as [[QuikScat]] and [[Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission|TRMM]] began to relay wind information near the ocean's surface starting in the late&nbsp;1970s, with microwave imagery which resembled radar displays, which significantly improved the diagnoses of [[tropical cyclone]] strength, intensification, and location during the 2000s and 2010s.