TIROS 6-10 showed major improvements in the operational periods in space. NASA actually decommissioned several of the spacecraft before their functional life was over.
TIROS 6
- Launch Date: September 18, 1962
- Rocket Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Dimensions 270 pounds, 19 inches high, 42 inch diameter
- Equipment Conducted the first satellite experiments to detect snow cover from space.
- Time Operational for 389 days
TIROS 7
- Launch Date: June 19, 1963
- Rocket Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Dimensions 270 pounds, 19 inches high, 42 inch diameter
- Equipment Contained experiments on infrared radiation and electron density and temperature in space
- Time Operational for 1809 days
TIROS 8
- Launch Date: December 23, 1963
- Rocket Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Dimensions 270 pounds, 19 inches high, 42 inch diameter
- Equipment First TIROS to photograph an 800 mile field of view.
- Time Operational for 1287 days
TIROS 9
- Launch Date: January 22, 1965
- Rocket Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Dimensions 270 pounds, 19 inches high, 42 inch diameter
- Equipment The first image of the entire world's cloud-cover was achieved via a composite of 450 photos taken on February 13, 1965. While the satellite was set for a sun-synchronous 82-degree retrograde orbit, a malfunction caused a more elliptical orbit instead of a circular one.
- Time Operational for 1238 days
TIROS 10
- Launch Date: July 2, 1965
- Rocket Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Dimensions 270 pounds, 19 inches high, 42 inch diameter
- Equipment Cameras were mounted on the base plate to get a wider field of view similar to TIROS 8.
- Time Operational for 730 days
