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Launch Date
11/11/2016
Launch Site
VS SLC3E
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Launch Vehicle
Atlas V 401 C (Atlas 5 Family)
Worldview-4 was a Lockheed Martin satellite procured by GeoEye.
On April 1, 2021, Maxar requested FCC Special Temporary Authority to perform end-of-mission procedures for WorldView-4 that included lowering the satellite from an operational arc of 350–450 km to 100–400 km for end-of-life maneuvers.
On January 7, 2019, WorldView-4 experienced a failure in its control moment gyros that prevented the satellite from collecting usable imagery due to the loss of an axis of stability.
As of September 13, 2016, WorldView-4 was to be delivered to a 617 km sun-synchronous orbit and to provide 31-centimeter panchromatic resolution and 1.24-meter multispectral resolution.
On November 30, 2021, the WorldView-4 commercial imaging satellite reentered over New Zealand at about 05:20 UTC.
On July 13, 2016, Lockheed Martin completed final preparations to ship the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a planned September 15, 2016 launch.
On September 8, 2016, the WorldView-4 satellite built by Lockheed Martin was encapsulated in a four-meter fairing for a scheduled September 16, 2016 launch aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket.
On September 13, 2016, the WorldView-4 mission was scheduled to launch on September 16, 2016 from Space Launch Complex 3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 with a launch window opening at 11:30 a.m. PDT and closing at 11:44 a.m. PDT and separation occurring approximately 20 minutes after liftoff.
As of July 25, 2016, the Atlas V rocket launching WorldView-4 included a rideshare manifest of seven CubeSats sponsored by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office to be deployed after separation of the WorldView-4 satellite.
On December 10, 2015, Raytheon's Constellation Scheduling System (CSS) was selected by DigitalGlobe to support mission planning for the WorldView-4 satellite and to prepare ground station support for a September 2016 launch.
As of September 13, 2016, WorldView-4 was specified to orbit Earth every 90 minutes at approximately 17,000 miles per hour and to capture as much as 680,000 square kilometers of the Earth's surface daily (approximately 18 terabytes).
GeoEye ordered the WorldView-4 satellite prior to GeoEye’s 2013 merger with DigitalGlobe.
Maxar Technologies intends to seek full recovery for the loss of WorldView-4 under its insurance policies with an insured value of $183,000,000.
Maxar filed an insurance claim for the loss of WorldView-4 and expects to receive the $183,000,000 insurance payment.
Maxar has received $153,300,000 of $183,000,000 in insurance payments for the WorldView-4 satellite and expects to receive the remainder by the end of the quarter.
Insurers paid a $183,000,000 payout to Maxar Technologies for the January failure of its WorldView-4 imaging satellite.
Maxar Technologies’ WorldView-4 imaging satellite failed in orbit in January 2019, resulting in a $183,000,000 insurance claim that insurers fully paid out by May 2019.
Maxar received a full $183,000,000 insurance payment for the failed WorldView-4 satellite.