OrbView-4

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 21 Sept 2001, 06:49 pm UTC

Rocket: Minotaur-C 2110 (Minotaur)

Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 576E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

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.