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Tiros 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 1 Apr 1960, 11:40 am UTC
Rocket: Thor Able II (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
TIROS-1 was the first successful low-Earth orbital weather satellite, and the first of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites.