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Ikonos

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Launch Details

Date: 24 Sept 1999, 06:21 pm UTC

Rocket: Athena II (Athena)

Provider: Lockheed Martin

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Polar Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 6, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, an operating unit of Missiles & Space, has revolutionized the space-based imagery market with the development of the first commercial satellite capable of resolving objects on the ground as small as one meter in diameter. The company is providing a spacecraft, designated IKONOS 1, for Space Imaging, Thornton, CO, which offers high-resolution imagery of the Earth to customers around the world.