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

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