Orbview 3

 2003-030A

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Orbview-3 is built by Orbital/Germantown for Orbimage and will be controlled from Orbimage/Dulles. Orbit is 470 x 470 km x 97, with 1030LT equator crossing. Spacecraft is a small LeoStar (STEP) bus. 12-sided polygon + 2 panels 1.9 l 1.2 dia, mass 304 kg + 66 kg instrument, including hydrazine prop.

Orbview-3
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2003 Jun 26	1757	L-1011 T/O VAFB
	1853	Launch by Pegasus XL
		T+0:00 Drop 39kft
		T+0:05 St 1 burn
		T+1:14 St 1 burnout
		T+1:31 St 1 sep
		T+1:32 St 2 burn
		T+2:11 Fairing sep
		T+2:45 St 2 burnout
		T+6:54 St 2 sep
	1900	T+7:00 St 3 burn
	1901	T+8:19 St 3 burnout
	1902	T+9:14 St 3 sep over 14N 127W at 367 km	92.52 366 x 429 x 97.28
		T+9:17 CCAM mvr
2003 Jul 10			92.54 362 x 435 x 97.28
2003 Jul 12		orbit raise	92.72 379 x 435 x 97.3
2003 Jul 15		orbit raise	92.89 399 x 432 x 97.3
2003 Jul 17		orbit raise	93.53 437 x 456 x 97.3
2003 Jul 21		orbit raise	93.66 452 x 453 x 97.3
2003 Jul 23		orbit raise	93.74 456 x 458 x 97.3
2007 Mar 4		Main camera failed
2010 Dec 20			93.25 432 x 434 x 97.0
2010 Dec 22		Test burn	93.19 427 x 434 x 97.0
2011 Jan 1			93.19 427 x 434 x 97.0
2011 Jan		Orbit lowering below ISS regime
2011 Jan 5			93.14 422 x 434 x 97.0
2011 Jan 8			92.15 373 x 386 x 97.0
2011 Jan 14			91.21 322 x 345 x 97.0
2011 Mar 1			90.70 311 x 332 x 97.0
2011 Mar		Phase 2 orbit lowering
2011 Mar 5			90.93 309 x 331 x 97.0
2011 Mar 5		Lower orbit 1	90.40 268 x 319 x 97.0
2011 Mar 10		Lower orbit 2	89.65 205 x 308 x 97.0
2011 Mar 12			89.50 202 x 297 x 97.0
2011 Mar 13	0231	Lower orbit 3	89.10 166 x 293 x 97.0
2011 Mar 18	0527:48	Deorbited
	0602	Entry

Payload:

• 0.45m telescope

• 1-m panchromatic camera, 8 km swath

• 2-m panchromatic camera, 8 km swath

• 4-m color camera, 8 km swath