Ikonos 2

Also called CRSS 2

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General

Designation	25919 / 99051A
Launch date	24 Sep 1999
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	680 km sun-synchronous
Inclination	98.1°
Period
Launch vehicle	Athena #6

First commercial high-resolution satellite. Is a duplicate of Ikonos 1
Should remain operational till 2010.

Still operating in 2014 and requested a licence extension through 14 Dec 2017.

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End of life

Out of service	31 Mar 2015
Cause	Retired
Decay

sat-index articles

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	Lockheed Martin
Platform	LM-900
Mass at launch	726 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension	main body: 1.8 x 1.8 x 1.6 m
Solar array	3 panels
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power	1100 W
Design lifetime	7 years

Equipped with a Kodak digital camera. This payload will enable the satellite to collect 1-meter resolution panchromatic (gray-scale) resolution and 4-meter resolution, four-band multispectral (red, green, blue, near infrared) imagery of the Earth.

The camera is comprised of a Kodak-designed and -manufactured focal plane array and a lightweight telescope using a state-of-the-art mirror fabricated with Kodak's advanced ion figuring technology. To speed the downloading of data to Space Imaging EOSAT's ground receiving stations, the original 11-bit data will be compressed using Kodak's proprietary bandwidth compression technology.

X-band downlink at 320 Mbps. 64 Gb onboard storage

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