TIROS-3 (Tiros-C), a NASA Television Infrared Observation System weather satellite, launched on a Thor DM-19 Delta from Cape Canaveral LC-17A on 12 July 1961. It returned cloud-cover imagery from low Earth orbit until deactivation on 28 February 1962.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 131 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 12 Thor Delta flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 1961, 10:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-017
- Launches in 1961
- 23rd of 50
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