Payload
TIROS 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
TIROS-1 was the first operational weather satellite, the first of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites (TIROS) placed in low Earth orbit.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 23, 1960 at 11:13 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Tiros 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 160 km
- Inclination
- 48.44°
- Orbital period
- 87.72 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-016A
- NORAD catalog №
- 63
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.878 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 18, 2014
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 18, 2014
- Time in service
- 53.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed