LaunchesIkonos
Lockheed MartinSUCCESS
Ikonos
Athena II · Earth Science
1999Space Launch Complex 6, Vandenberg
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Lockheed Martin
- Rocket
- Athena II
- Orbit
- PO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 6
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2