1999 · Lockheed Martin
Ikonos
successAthena II | Ikonos
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.
Overview
- Date / time
- September 24, 1999 at 06:21 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 6
- Mission
- Ikonos
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Polar Orbit