Wednesday, June 5, 2002

Ikonos

 1999-051A


Mass 726 kg. Built by LM/Sunnyvale using LM900 bus. Ikonos had 1-m resolution at 13 km swath. Launched to 10:30am descending node SSO. Ikonos was the first of the high res commercial imaging satellites to reach orbit and operate.

A piece of debris separated on 2001 Mar 19 and reentered rapidly.

OAM mass 650f?; Orbus 21 10600 f 865 em so m1/m2 = 11976 / 2241


Ikonos 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Sep 24  1821:08 Launch by Athena 2 LM-7  V SLC6 
  T+1:24 St 1 burnout 
  T+1:25 St 2 burn 18 km  -6300 x 20 ? 
  T+2:53 St 2 burn out  -5600 x 180 ? 
  T+4:27 Fairing  -5600 x 180 ?  
  T+4:32 St 2 sep 
 1825:40 T+4:32 St 3 burn at 179 km  
 1828:11 T+7:03 St 3 burnout 
 1828:12  T+7:04 St 3 sep 90.92 207 x 431 x 98.2 (B) 
 
 1828:17 T+7:09 St 4 burn 162s   
 1830:59 T+9:51 St 4 MECO  93.69 220 x 689 x 98.2 (est) 
 1912:35 T+51:27 St 4 burn 2 386s 
 1919:01 T+57:53 St 4 MECO-2 
 1919:15  T+58:07 St 4 sep  98.36 678 x 682 x 98.1 
 1924 T+1:03:08 St 4 avoidance 
 1928 T+1:07:26 St 4 MECO-3  92.24 137 x 630 x 97.7 (C) 
   98.36 678 x 682 x 98.1 

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