Sunday, June 21, 2015

QuickBird

 2001-047A


DigitalGlobe's QuickBird made it to orbit safely. Planned orbit was lowered to beat Ikonos' resolution and achieve 0.6m. Mass is 1028 kg.

In 2011 the orbit was boosted to 475 km and then allowed to decay until its 2015 reentry.


QuickBird 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2001 Oct 18 1851:26 Launch by Delta 7320-10C  V SLC2W 
  T+1:04 SRM 1-3 out 
  T+1:39 SRM 1-3 sep 
  T+4:24 MECO 
  T+4:32 St 1 sep 
  T+4:48 SES-1 
  T+4:57 Fairing sep
 1902:08 T+10:42 SECO-1  185 x 472 x 98.1  
  T+55:00 SES-2 
  T+57:51 SECO-2  463 x 472 x 97.3  
 1955:38 T+1:04:12 Delta sep  93.87 461 x 465 x 97.2 
 2020?Delta depletion  90.67 167 x 447 x 108.9 
2002 Jan 4    93.47 442 x 447 x 97.2 
2002 Jan 5   mv up  93.53 445 x 449 x 97.2 
2013 Jan 1    93.54 446 x 448 x 97.2 
2011 Mar 24    93.55 446 x 450 x 97.1 
2011 Mar 24  Begin boost  93.60 448 x 453 x 97.1 
2011 Apr 7   Boost complete  94.16 476 x 479 x 97.3 
2013 Mar 14    93.46 442 x 444 x 97.2 
2013 Dec 20    92.95 417 x 420 x 97.2 
2014 Mar 3    92.72 407 x 408 x 97.1 
2015 Jan 27  0030? Reentered  87.42 141 x 151 x 97 

Payload:

  • Pan camera, 0.61m res, 16 km swath

  • Multispectral camera, 2.5m res

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