Description : The spacecraft failed to achieve orbit. ITOS-E was one in a series of improved TIROS-M type satellites that was launched with new meteorological sensors on board to expand the operational capability of the ITOS system. The primary objectives of the ITOS-E meteorologcial satellite were to provide global daytime and nighttime direct readout cloudcover data on a daily basis. The sun-synchronous spacecraft was also capable of supplying global atmospheric temperature soundings and very high resolution infrared cloudcover data for selected areas in either a direct readout or a tape recorder mode. A secondary objective was to obtain global solar proton flux data on a routine daily basis.

Vandenberg post stamp and Meteo Itos C satellite.

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ITOS E (SATELLITE) · DELTA 300 · FAILURE