TIROS-9, a NASA Television Infrared Observation Satellite weather spacecraft and the first TIROS in a near-polar wheel-mode orbit. Thor Delta C from Cape Canaveral LC-17A launched it on 22 January 1965; it later produced the first photomosaic of the entire world's cloud cover.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 140 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 10 Thor Delta C flights
- Date and time
- 22 January 1965, 07:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1965-004
- Launches in 1965
- 5th of 124
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