Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:49:30 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4494 ever
Mission
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.