Taurus 2110 | OrbView-4
Status: Failure | Launched: Sep 21, 2001 18:49 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation (Commercial)
- Rocket: Minotaur-C 2110 — Minotaur family
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.
- Type: Earth Science
- Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Launch Site
- Pad: Space Launch Complex 576E
- Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-08-22T21:02:10.804714+00:00.