Beskrivning : Numbered cover with silk cachet dedicated to GOES 1, launch from Cape Canaveral.
The spin-stabilized spacecraft carried

(1) a visible infrared spin-scan radiometer (VISSR) to provide high-quality day and night cloudcover data and to take radiance-derived temperatures of the earth/atmosphere system

(2) a meteorological data collection and transmission system to relay processed data from central weather facilities to APT-equipped regional stations and to collect and retransmit data from remotely located earth-based platforms, and

(3) a space environment monitor (SEM) system to measure proton, electron, and solar X-ray fluxes and magnetic fields.

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