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QuickBird 2
Launch SuccessfulLaunch 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.