Delta 2910 from Vandenberg SLC-2W launched Nimbus 7 (Nimbus-G), the final Nimbus Earth-observation satellite with CZCS ocean-color and TOMS ozone sensors, plus the piggyback CAMEO barium/lithium release experiment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 Delta 2910 flights
- Date and time
- 24 October 1978, 08:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2910
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1978-098
- Launches in 1978
- 102nd of 128
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