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Tiros 6
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 18 Sept 1962, 08:53 am UTC
Rocket: Thor Delta (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
NASA's TIROS (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) program was the first experimental weathersatellite program.