Nimbus 7 (also called Nimbus G) was a meteorological satellite. It was the seventh and last in a series of the Nimbus program. Nimbus 7 was launched on October 24, 1978, by a Delta rocket …

The Nimbus 7 research-and-development satellite served as a stabilized, earth-oriented platform for the testing of advanced systems used to sense and collect data in the pollution, oceanographic, and meteorological disciplines.

Mar 6, 2025 · Nimbus-7 carried eight scientific instruments: Limb infrared monitoring of the stratosphere (LIMS), Stratospheric and mesopheric sounder (SAMS), Coastal-zone color scanner (CZCS), Stratospheric aerosol measurement II (SAM II), Earth radiation budget (ERB), Scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (SMMR), Solar backscatter UV and total ozone ...

Jun 1, 2012 · Launched in October 1978, Nimbus-7 was the seventh and final mission in the Nimbus series of research and development satellites designed and developed collaboratively by the National Aerospace and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Nimbus 7 research-and-development satellite served as a stabilized, earth-oriented platform for the testing of advanced systems for sensing and collecting data in the pollution, oceanographic and meteorological disciplines.

The spacecraft operation, mission, and scientific objectives of the Nimbus 7 flight are presented, and the instruments are discussed. The formats, archiving, and access to the data are described.

Seven Nimbus spacecraft have been launched into near-polar, Sun-synchronous orbits beginning with Nimbus 1 on August 28, 1964. On board the Nimbus satellites are various instrumentation for imaging, sounding, and other studies in different spectral regions.

The Nimbus satellites were second-generation meteorological research and development (R&D) spacecraft designed to serve as stablized, earth-oriented platforms for the testing of advanced systems to sense and collect atmospheric science data.

Oct 1, 1991 · Nimbus-7 The DSN (Deep Space Network) mission support requirements for Nimbus 7 are summarized. The basic Nimbus series spacecraft is attitude-stabilized in three axes, with the yaw axis always pointing towards the center of the Earth.

The objectives of NIMBUS-7 ERB are 1) to obtain accurate measurements of solar irradiance, monitor its variation in time, and observe the temporal variation of the solar spectrum: and 2) to determine the Earth radiation budget from simultaneous measurements of the incoming solar radiation and the outgoing Earth-reflected and Earth-emitted ...