Weather satellite: Timeline

1959   USA launches Vanguard II weather satellite.

1960   April 1 — The United States United States

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 launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.

1991   A rare tropical storm Tropical cyclone

In meteorology [i], a tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rise ... 

 develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola Angola

Angola is a country in south-west Africa [i] bordering Namibia [i], the Democratic Republic of the Congo [i] ... 

 (the first of its kind to be documented by satellites Weather satellite

A weather satellite is a type of satellite [i] that is primarily used to monitor the weather [i] and climate [i] ... 

).