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Thor SLV-2A Agena B | Nimbus 2
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
Nimbus 2, the second in a series of second-generation meteorological research-and-development satellites, added an additional medium-resolution infrared radiometer (MRIR) compared to Nimbus 1.
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