Payload
TIROS 9
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
TIROS-9 was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the ninth in a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 22, 1965 at 07:52 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta C →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Tiros 9
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 2,559 km
- Periapsis
- 704 km
- Inclination
- 96.4°
- Orbital period
- 118.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 136.77 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-004A
- NORAD catalog №
- 978
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.761 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational