TIROS-10 (A-55/OT-1), NASA/ESSA’s tenth Television Infrared Observation Satellite for meteorological cloud imaging. Thor Delta C from Cape Canaveral LC-17B lofted it on 2 July 1965 into sun-synchronous orbit; operations ended about 1 July 1967.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 129 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 10 Thor Delta C flights
- Date and time
- 2 July 1965, 04:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1965-051
- Launches in 1965
- 57th of 124
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