LAUNCH CENTER

Success

Fri Sep 24 1999

Lockheed Martin

Ikonos

Launch Successful

Launch Time

(6:21 PM UTC)

Launch Window Start

(6:21 PM UTC)

Launch Window End

(6:21 PM UTC)

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Athena II

The Athena II is an American small expendable launch system which was used for three launches between 1998 and 1999.

Type: Earth Science
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.

Location

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 6