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Image:Nimbus.jpg 200px Image:Nimbus_(2).jpg 200px Nimbus 1 satellite Category:Spacecraft

... , Wash. Eve. Star, 1/3/66)’’ Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC Nimbus Project Manager Harry Press told Aviation Week that Nimbus B would move NASA’s weather satellite program into a second ... for launch in 1967 with Extended Thrust Augmented Thor -Agena D launch vehicle, Nimbus B would use basic Nimbus spacecraft configuration, but would require strengthened structural elements because of its additional weight ...

... next to last in a planned series of seven experimental meteorological satellites. Nimbus 1 (launched 28 Aug. 1964) and Nimbus 2 (launched 15 May 1966) achieved all their objectives. Launch of the ... when the launch vehicle malfunctioned; an identical spacecraft launched 14 April 1969 successfully functioned as Nimbus 3 . Nimbus 4 and 5 (launched 8 April 1970 and 10 Dec. 1972) had both completed ...

... -lb) satellite carried six meteorological and earth resources experiments: SCR; infrared temperature profile radiometer (ITPR) ; Nimbus E microwave spectrometer (HEMS) ; electrically scanning microwave radiometer (ESMR) ; surface-composition mapping radiometer (SCMR) ; and ... history, providing worldwide atmospheric information. Six of nine experiments on Nimbus 4 (launched April 8, 1970) could still provide atmospheric data. Nimbus program was managed by Goddard Space Flight Center under NASA ...

... patterns. NOAA and several U.S. university scientists would work with NASA scientists on the Nimbus-G project, along with scientists from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada, South Africa, West ... unmanned-launch operations team would supervise the Delta launch. General Electric Co.'s Space Division, Nimbus prime contractor with more than 50 major subsystem contractors, would be responsible for sensors and ...

... as buoys, balloons, aircraft, and elk in Yellowstone National Park. Butterfly-shaped 1,269-lb Nimbus III was fourth in series of seven spacecraft designed to develop significantly improved meteorological satellite ... (launched May 15, 1966) had exceeded six-month lifetime, operating successfully until Jan. 18, 1969. Nimbus program was managed by Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC under OSSA direction. ''(NASA Proj Off ...

... and demonstrate satisfactory operation of advanced modular three-axis attitude-control system for six months. Nimbus IV carried nine meteorological experiments: three new (backscatter UV spectrometer, filter wedge spectrometer, and selective chopper radiometer) and six carried on previous Nimbus missions (infrared interferometer spectrometer; satellite infrared spectrometer; interrogation, recording, and location system; temperature and humidity ...

... National Operational Meteorological Satellite System. . . . Our effort to achieve the redundant system in the first Nimbus flight was continued as long as possible. . . . we did not want to take the step ... , for a contract to develop a new weather measuring system to be tested aboard the Nimbus B meteorological satellite. The new equipment, Interrogation Recording and Location System (IRLS), would tie together ...

... had more than achieved design objectives: ". . during its three and one-half weeks of life, Nimbus took 12,137 individual frames of AVCS pictures, an estimated l,930 APT cycles, and ... were located by this spacecraft... "The launch and successful operation of Nimbus I has proved the success of the basic Nimbus spacecraft design. It has also given NASA a better insight as ... will be required in the system design for the next Nimbus flight. As mentioned previously, the primary limitation of the first Nimbus flight was the result of the failure of the Agena ...

... load approaches. ''(XB-70 Proj Off)'' NASA announced probable spring 1969 launch of Nimbus B2 to replace Nimbus B experimental weather satellite intentionally destroyed after launch May 18. Primary meteorological objective would ... eliminate critical 21-mo gap in U.S. meteorology satellite program. Nimbus I, launched Aug. 28, 1964, operated 26 days. Nimbus II, launched May 15, 1966, was still transmitting, but with inoperable ...

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