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Satellite · NORAD 11080 · COSPAR 1978-098A

NIMBUS 7

UnknownPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

99.45°

Period

104.0 min

104.0 min

Perigee

941km

Apogee

955km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 14 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
3.1 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • NIMBUS 7Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
24 Oct 1978
COSPAR launch id
1978-098
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch · 3

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
11080
COSPAR / international designator
1978-098A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMSWGAB1RH93X50S2NJ
Canonical slug
nimbus-7-11080

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.