Satellite · NORAD 978 · COSPAR 1965-004A
TIROS 9
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
96.41°
Period
118.9 min
118.9 min
Perigee
704km
Apogee
2,558km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TIROS 9Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 22 Jan 1965
- COSPAR launch id
- 1965-004
Objects from the same launch · 4
- DELTA 1 DEB1312DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB1313DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB27720DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 R/B979Rocket bodyInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 978
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1965-004A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJDHZBK46B4JZ202Y8P
- Canonical slug
- tiros-9-978
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.