flown missionFailure
Taurus 2110 | OrbView-4
Orbital Sciences CorporationSpace Launch Complex 576E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
mission
- Name
- OrbView-4
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
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.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Minotaur-C 2110
- Family
- Minotaur
- Variant
- 2110
- Provider
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 576E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Coordinates
- 34.7394, -120.6192