Thursday, December 24, 1987

Nimbus 2

  1966-040A


Nimbus II was launched 1966 May 15 at 0755 by a Thrust Augmented Thor Agena B from Vandenberg. The satellite entered a 1103 x 1179 km x 100.4 deg orbit and operated until 1969 Jan 18. 


Nimbus 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1966 May 15  0755:34  Launch by Thor Agena B  V 75-1 Pad 1 
 0756:17  Castor burnout 
 0756:39  Castor sep  
 0758:03 Thor MECO (T+2:29) 
 0758:12  Thor VECO (T+2:38) 
 0758:19  Thor sep (T+2:47) 
 0758:48  Agena burn (T+3:14) 
 0758:57  Fairing sep 
 0802:39  Agena MECO (T+7:05)  187? x 1101 x 100.35  
 0848:16  T+52:42 Agena burn 2 
 0848:21  T+52:47 Agena MECO-2 0.26 km/s  108.06 1095 x 1161 x 100 (VCR) 
 0852:44  Agena sep 
 0852:46  Nimbus panel deploy 
 0856Agena retro-1 
 0905Agena retro-2 
1969 Jan 18   End of ops 

Payload:

  • AVCS Advanced Vidicon Camera System

  • MRIR Medium Resolution IR Radiometer

Sunday, December 20, 1987

Kosmos 938

 1977-078A


Two-tone telemetry; Hi res satellite


Kosmos-938 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1977 Aug 24  1430 Launch by Soyuz-U  Plesetsk 
 1434  Blok-I burn 
 1438  Blok-I sep 
1977 Aug 24    89.38 181 x 340 x 62.9 
1977 Aug 25   
89.38 156 x 331 x 62.8 
1977 Aug 29    89.19 154 x 314 x 62.8 
1977 Sep 5    88.87 150 x 286 x 62.8 
1977 Sep 6   
 0514? Deorbit 
 0519? PO sep 
 0527?  Entry 
 0545?  Landed 

Kosmos 588

 1973-069A


Kosmos-588 was satellite 1 of Strela-1M octuplet no. 7.


Kosmos-588  
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1973 Oct 2  2146  Launch by 11K65M  PL 
  Stage 2 burn 1  
 2153 T+7m Stage 2 MECO-1 
  Stage 2 burn 2 
 2244? T+58m? Stage 2 sep 
   115.37 1451 x 1494 x 74.00  

May 13,2026

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