Payload
TIROS 6
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
TIROS 6 was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the sixth in a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 18, 1962 at 08:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Tiros 6
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 587 km
- Periapsis
- 571 km
- Inclination
- 58.3°
- Orbital period
- 96.26 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 125.87 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-047A
- NORAD catalog №
- 397
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7579 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational