Payload
NIMBUS 4
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 8, 1970 at 08:17 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Nimbus 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,097 km
- Periapsis
- 1,086 km
- Inclination
- 99.96°
- Orbital period
- 107.08 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-025A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4362
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.6535 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational