OrbView 4 [OSC]
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 with a swath width of 8 km as well as 200 channel hyperspectral imagery with a swath width of 5 km. The satellite was to revisit each location on Earth in less than three days with an ability to turn from side-to-side up to 45 degrees from a polar orbital path.
The OHRIS (OrbView High Resolution Imaging System) was a body-mounted optomechanical instrument (whiskbroom scanning imager), built by Northrop Grumman. The spectral range of the instrument is 0.4 - 2.5 µm. Up to 200 contiguous spectral bands can be defined within the spectral region. A typical scene size is 5 km (swath width) × 20 km (length) with a spatial resolution of 8 m (GSD) at nadir. The data quantization is at 12 bit. No data compression was employed.
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. It was the first application of OSC's new LEOStar-2 bus.
Nation: | USA |
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Type / Application: | Earth observation |
Operator: | OrbImage |
Contractors: | Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) |
Equipment: | OHRIS 0.45-meter aperture camera (1-m res. panchromatic, 8-m res. 200-channel hyperspectral) |
Configuration: | LEOStar-2 |
Propulsion: | ? |
Power: | 6 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries |
Lifetime: | |
Mass: | 368 kg |
Orbit: | 470 km × 470 km, 97.25° SSO (planned) |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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OrbView 4 | 2001-F01 | 21.09.2001 | Va 576E | F | Taurus-2110 | with QuikTOMS, SBD, Celestis 05 |