Rank 104 documents TIROS 1 — the spacecraft that opened the weather satellite era with the first television pictures of Earth's cloud cover from orbit. Launched 1 April 1960 from Cape Canaveral aboard Thor-Able, the 122.5 kg Goddard spin-stabilized drum carried two slow-scan TV cameras that transmitted the first orbital weather image on 1 April 1960 — cloud patterns over the Atlantic visible from 692 × 643 km orbit. Over seventy-eight days of operation, TIROS returned approximately eighteen thousand cloud photographs, proving that meteorologists could observe storm systems from space in near-real time. Verner Suomi's spin-scan camera concept developed for TIROS led directly to modern GOES geostationary weather satellites. Herbert Friedman's leadership at Goddard established the Television Infrared Observation Satellite program that NASA and NOAA would operate for decades. Wallimilist renders the 18-sided drum with camera lens slots, cloud spiral Earth below in arch frame, 1960 numeral, and FIRST WEATHER SATELLITE kicker exactly as the master PNG dictates — Cape Canaveral launch kicker, 1960 Earth palette, and curator copy on weather-from-orbit heritage.