1963 · United States Air Force
Tiros 8
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NASA's TIROS (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) program was the first experimental weathersatellite program.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 21, 1963 at 09:30 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B
- Mission
- Tiros 8
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit