Space AtlasTIROS 9
NORAD 978 · Payload · In orbit since 1965
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1965-01-22 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 138 kg
- Size
- 0.6 × 1.1 m
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 705 × 2,558 km
- Inclination
- 96.4°
- Period
- 118.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.1158
- 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.