Space AtlasNIMBUS 6
NORAD 7924 · Payload · In orbit since 1975
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1975-06-12 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 827 kg
- Size
- 3.7 × 3.4 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,100 × 1,113 km
- Inclination
- 100.0°
- Period
- 107.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0009
- 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.