Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Production Corporation Polyot
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
Russia
Date
Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:00:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4443 ever
Mission
The QuickBird satellites were commercial Earth imaging satellites with 1 m to 61 cm resolution owned by EarthWatch, later DigitalGlobe. QuickBird 1 launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk, but was lost due to launch vehicle failure, when the vehicle failed to circularize its orbit. It reentered still attached to the upper stage.