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1963 · United States Air Force

Tiros 8

successThor Delta B | Tiros 8

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

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