TIROS-6 (TIROS-F2), a NASA Television Infrared Observation Satellite for continuous cloud-cover weather imaging. Final flight of the Thor DM-19 Delta, from Cape Canaveral LC-17A on 18 September 1962, placed it in low Earth orbit; last signals came 21 October 1963.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 129 kg
- Flight
- 12th
- of 12 Thor Delta flights
- Date and time
- 18 September 1962, 08:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1962-047
- Launches in 1962
- 54th of 81
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