Payload
TIROS 8
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
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
- December 21, 1963 at 09:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Tiros 8
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 662 km
- Periapsis
- 640 km
- Inclination
- 58.49°
- Orbital period
- 97.75 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 117.94 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-054A
- NORAD catalog №
- 716
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7475 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational