United States Air Force

Nimbus 2

Thor SLV-2A Agena B

SUCCESS
Success

Sunday, May 15, 1966 · 07:55 UTC

Mission

/01

Nimbus 2, the second in a series of second-generation meteorological research-and-development satellites, added an additional medium-resolution infrared radiometer (MRIR) compared to Nimbus 1.

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Polar Orbit (PO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Thor SLV-2A Agena B

Variant: SLV-2A Agena B

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 2E

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.752° N, 120.619° W

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