Payload
TIROS 7
DecayedPayloadLEO
TIROS-7 was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the seventh in a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 19, 1963 at 09:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Tiros 7
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 194 km
- Periapsis
- 188 km
- Inclination
- 58.17°
- Orbital period
- 88.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 133.8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-024A
- NORAD catalog №
- 604
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.3081 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 3, 1994
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 3, 1994
- Time in service
- 31.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed