Space AtlasNIMBUS 4
NORAD 4362 · Payload · In orbit since 1970
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1970-04-08 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 619 kg
- Size
- 3 × 3.3 m · 3.6 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,087 × 1,097 km
- Inclination
- 100.0°
- Period
- 106.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.