Space AtlasTIROS 2
NORAD 63 · Payload · Reentered 2014-05-18
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- 1960-11-23 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 122 kg
- Size
- 0.5 × 1.1 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 160 × 163 km
- Inclination
- 48.4°
- Period
- 87.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002
- 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.