ESSA-8 (TOS-F), an Environmental Science Services Administration TIROS Operational System weather satellite launched on a Thor Delta N from Vandenberg SLC-2E into sun-synchronous orbit for cloud-cover imaging and meteorology.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 131 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 6 Thor Delta N flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1968, 17:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta N
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1968-114
- Launches in 1968
- 123rd of 128
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