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Tiros 8
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 21 Dec 1963, 09:30 am UTC
Rocket: Thor Delta B (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
NASA's TIROS (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) program was the first experimental weathersatellite program.