Payload
NIMBUS 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 28, 1964 at 07:56 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor SLV-2 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Nimbus 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 187 km
- Periapsis
- 179 km
- Inclination
- 98.67°
- Orbital period
- 88.15 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-052A
- NORAD catalog №
- 872
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 16, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 16, 1974
- Time in service
- 9.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed