Deployed IKONOS-2 into sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg for Space Imaging, becoming the first commercial satellite able to resolve ground objects as small as one meter. The launch followed the April 1999 loss of near-identical IKONOS-1 when its payload fairing failed to separate.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 726 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Athena II flights
- Date and time
- 24 September 1999, 18:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Athena II
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 6, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-051
- Launches in 1999
- 53rd of 78
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