Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Worldview 4

 2016-067A


GeoEye (Dulles, VA) satellite with an ITT camera at 0.25m resolution.

2087 kg, Lockheed Martin CSS LM-900 bus, with ITT payload. Size is 5.3m x 2.5m with 7.9m span.

GeoEye-2 was renamed WorldView-4. 7 cubesats on the Atlas ABC in the ENTERPRISE deployer (smaller than NPSCUL, 12U capacity; Tyvak and Cal Poly dispensers) with Prometheus A/B, Aerocube 8C/D, U2U, CELTEE, RAVAN.

Prometheus DoD Nanosat project - over the horizon comms Opticube (Cal Poly) = U2U? RAVAN



 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2016 Nov 11  1830:33 Launch by Atlas 401  V SLC3E 
  T+4:03 BECO 
  T+4:09 Atlas sep 
  T+4:27 Fairing sep
 1846:09 T+15:36 MECO-1 
 1849:48 T+19:15 Centaur sep 
 2042 T+2:11:46 DoDNP Sat 1,2 First ENTERPRISE cubesat deploy 
 2045 T+2:15:00? batch 2 - Aerocube 8C 8D 
 2054? T+2:22 batch 3 CELTEE Opticube 
 2055 T+2:25:46 Last cubesat deploy, RAVAN 
 2118? Centaur MES-3 
 2120  Centaur MECO-3 to solar orbit 
 2154  Centaur venting complete 
2016 Nov 12  0354  AV-062 past EL1:4 
2016 Nov 15  0020? AV-062 departs Earth sphere 

No comments:

Post a Comment

October 1,2026

  https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.860.txt