Saturday, January 27, 1996

Tiros 8

  1963-054A


The fourth enlarged hatbox Tiros, Tiros VIII (A-53, Tiros H) was launched at 0930 on 1963 Dec 21 and inserted into orbit at 0941. It operated until 1967 Jun 30. In addition to the usual 2 TV cameras, it carried an APT (Automatic Picture Transmission) experiment. Its Dec 1993 orbit was 667 x 706 km x 58.5 deg.


Tiros 8 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1963 Dec 21  0930:00  Launch by Delta B CK LC17 
 0932:25 T+2:25 MECO  
 0932 T+2:45 Thor sep 
 0932:45 M+0:20 Delta 20007 SES 2:44? 
  Left yaw manuever 
 0935:00  M+2:35 Delta SECO  -4010 x 713 x 58.5 
 0940:26 M+8:01 Altair 20008 burn 
 0941:18  T+8:53 Altair cutoff 
 0951:26 Altair sep 
 0951:28 Despin weights release 
1963 Dec 22    99.36 692 x 763 x 58.49 
1967 Jun 30   End of tx  99.34 706 x 747 x 58.50 
1993 Dec    667 x 706 x 58.5 

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