EO Bird Makes A Quick Exit After Failed Orbital Insertion

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Moscow (Interfax) Nov. 21, 2000
The U.S. satellite Quick Bird launched in the early hours of Tuesday entered its orbit but disappeared from the visibility zone of Russian radio equipment and does not respond to the signals sent by Russian ground stations, the Russian Defense Ministry main center for spacecraft testing and control has told Interfax.

The center did not disclose any details but said experts were analyzing the case. A specialist from the center said they were not overdramatizing the situation and "there are several options of resolving it."

A Russian Kosmos-3M booster-rocket with the U.S. satellite launched from Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk region, north Russia, reached the planned orbit.

The launch was put off by an hour at the request of the U.S. side because American ground control facilities had been unprepared for receiving telemetric data.

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A Russian rocket Kosmos-3M with a U.S. Quick Bird satellite blasted off from Russia's northern Plesetsk cosmodrome at 2:00 a.m. Moscow time on Tuesday.

It was the 401st launch of a carrier-rocket of the Kosmos-3M series from Plesetsk, the press service of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces has told Interfax.

The 950-kilogram Quick Bird satellite is intended for the commercial probing of natural resources and for drawing up maps of the Earth's surface. It is the first of two satellites to be launched under one contract.

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Quickbird 1 is on the Ball With Earthwatch Delivery

Boulder - Oct. 20, 2000
Two Colorado companies working together are advancing the remote-sensing market for commercial customers. By the end of October, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., is scheduled to deliver its first of two QuickBird remote-sensing satellites to EarthWatch Incorporated of Longmont, Colo. QuickBird 1 is capable of taking one-meter panchromatic (black and white) and four-meter multispectral (color) digital images of Earth's surface.

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