TIROS-7 (A-52 / Tiros-G), a NASA Television Infrared Observation Satellite weather spacecraft operated for ESSA. Thor Delta B from Cape Canaveral LC-17B placed it in near-polar LEO on 19 June 1963; it returned cloud-cover imagery for years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 137 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 9 Thor Delta B flights
- Date and time
- 19 June 1963, 09:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1963-024
- Launches in 1963
- 33rd of 69
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