ESSA-1 (TIROS Operational System), the first ESSA polar-orbiting weather satellite providing operational cloud-cover imagery for the Environmental Science Services Administration. Thor Delta C from Cape Canaveral LC-17A lofted it on 3 February 1966 into LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 140 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 10 Thor Delta C flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 1966, 07:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-008
- Launches in 1966
- 9th of 131
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