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QuickBird 2

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 18 Oct 2001, 06:51 pm UTC

Rocket: Delta II (Delta)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

The QuickBird commercial imaging satellite was owned by DigitalGlobe (formerly EarthWatch) and used a Ball BCP2000 bus with a launch mass of 1028 kg and a dry mass of about 995 kg.