The TIROS program provided the first accurate weather forecasts based on data from space, demonstrating that it was possible to use satellites to observe weather.

泰洛斯计划基于来自太空的数据提供了精准的气象预报，证明使用卫星进行气象观测是可能的。

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So while ENIAC's creators wanted to use their new computer to help predict the weather or the stock market, it wound up helping America's fledgling space program get off the ground.

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But in a greater sense, you have to ask what it is the shuttle, or the space program, I guess, is doing, and it is a variety of things, from weather satellites and improved communications to other technologies.

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