1968 · United States Air Force
Nimbus B
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The Nimbus-B meteorological R&D satellite was designed to serve as a stabilized, earth-oriented platform for the testing of advanced systems for sensing and collecting meteorological data. It was lost due to a malfunction in the booster guidance system.
Overview
- Date / time
- May 18, 1968 at 08:23 AM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Mission
- Nimbus B
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit