ESSA 7

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 16 Aug 1968, 11:24 am UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta N (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

The ESSA series was the second generation of US meterological satellites after the TIROS (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) series. They were also called OT (Operational TIROS), TOS (TIROS Operational Satellite).