What happened after launch, what was the sequential order of events?
After the IKONOS satellite separated from the Athena rocket, about an hour into the mission, the satellite was in its orbit. The solar arrays deployed, powering up the subsystems. We continued to receive telemetry data, and began to bring the various systems on-line, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) unit, star trackers, configured the antennas, initialized the payload and continued to monitor the health of the satellite.
