TIROS-5 (Tiros-E / A-50), a NASA meteorological satellite carrying television cameras for cloud-cover and weather observation. Thor Delta (D010) from Cape Canaveral LC-17A successfully placed it in a near-polar low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 131 kg
- Flight
- 10th
- of 12 Thor Delta flights
- Date and time
- 19 June 1962, 12:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1962-025
- Launches in 1962
- 31st of 81
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