ORBVIEW-2 > Orbital Sciences Corporation OrbView-2 Satellite


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    description:  ORBVIEW-2 - Original name of satellite was SeaStar. Launched: August 1, 1997 at approximately 16:20 EDT. Instruments: SeaWIFS. Status: Operational. Other details: Sun-synchronous orbit, nominal altitude of 705 km, Equator crossing is at noon +/- 20 minutes for descending node, the inclination is 98 deg 20 min and the orbital period is 98.9 minutes.
    sponsor:  xlink: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/docucomp/86D032BB-C507-8BFC-E040-0AC8C5AB42D97 title: NASA/GSFC/EOS > Earth Observing System, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (CI_ResponsibleParty)
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    sponsor:  xlink: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/docucomp/86D032BB-C50C-8BFC-E040-0AC8C5AB42D97 title: GeoEye (formerly ORBIMAGE, Inc) (CI_ResponsibleParty)
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    instrument:  xlink: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/docucomp/8293FAD4B86D75F2E040AC8C5AB4576F title: SEAWIFS > Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor