Orbital Sciences Corporation

OrbView-4

Minotaur-C 2110

FAILURE
Failure

Friday, September 21, 2001 · 18:49 UTC

Mission

/01

Orbview 4 was a high resolution commercial Earth imaging satellite imagery. OrbView 4's imaging instrument was to provide one-meter panchromatic imagery and four-meter multispectral imagery. OrbView 4 was lost in an launch failure, when the Taurus-2110 carrier rocket suffered an loss of control, which was recovered, but orbit was not achieved.

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Minotaur-C 2110

Variant: 2110

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 576E

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.739° N, 120.619° W

6

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606

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38

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