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NIMBUS-NIM I--------
Premature Agena cutoff left the craft in an elliptical orbit rather than a more circular one and one of the solar panels failed 26 days into the mission. In spite of these problems, 27,000 pictures were taken and 60 ground stations were involved in the direct readout of this imagery. The infrared imagery was much clearer than those sampled by the TIROS series. NIMBUS I remained operational until September 23, 1964.

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