Payload
ESSA 9 (TOS-G)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 3764
ESSA 9 (TOS-G) is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 26, 1969 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 26, 1969 at 07:47 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta E1 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ESSA 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,506 km
- Periapsis
- 1,425 km
- Inclination
- 101.4°
- Orbital period
- 115.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 143.71 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.07 × 0.56 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-016A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3764
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7838 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational