TIROS-4 (A-9), a NASA meteorological satellite with television cameras for cloud-cover imaging. Thor Delta (DM-19) from Cape Canaveral successfully placed it in a near-polar orbit, continuing the early TIROS weather-observation series.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 131 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 12 Thor Delta flights
- Date and time
- 8 February 1962, 12:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1962-002
- Launches in 1962
- 4th of 81
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