Space AtlasTIROS 4
NORAD 226 · Payload · In orbit since 1962
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1962-02-08 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 129 kg
- Size
- 0.5 × 1.1 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 681 × 789 km
- Inclination
- 48.3°
- Period
- 99.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0076
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.