Payload
TIROS 4
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
TIROS-4 was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the fourth in a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 8, 1962 at 12:43 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Tiros 4
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 789 km
- Periapsis
- 681 km
- Inclination
- 48.3°
- Orbital period
- 99.5 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 127.85 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 226
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.812 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational