Satellite · NORAD 4362 · COSPAR 1970-025A
NIMBUS 4
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
99.96°
Period
107.1 min
107.1 min
Perigee
1,086km
Apogee
1,097km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 2.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- NIMBUS 4Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Apr 1970
- COSPAR launch id
- 1970-025
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4601DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4602DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4603DebrisInactive
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4604DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4605DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4606DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4607DebrisInactive
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4608DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4609DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4610DebrisDecayed
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4611DebrisInactive
- THORAD AGENA D DEB4612DebrisInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 4362
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1970-025A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK1151VSFGQ1443J35C
- Canonical slug
- nimbus-4-4362
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.