ESSA 2, the second operational Environmental Science Services Administration weather satellite (TIROS Operational System), launched on a Thor Delta E from Cape Canaveral LC-17B to provide daily global cloud-cover imagery for meteorological forecasting.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 132 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 6 Thor Delta E flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 1966, 13:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta E
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-016
- Launches in 1966
- 18th of 131
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