WorldView-1

WorldView-1

WorldView-1 is a commercial earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe. It was launched September 18, 2007, and DigitalGlobe plans to launch another, similar satellite after its construction is finished in late 2008. [cite web | url = http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0701/07worldview2/ | title = DigitalGlobe announces Ball building WorldView 2 satellite | publisher = Spaceflight Now | accessdate = 2007-02-02] First imagery from WorldView-1 is expected to be available prior to October 18, the six-year anniversary of the launch of QuickBird, DigitalGlobe’s current satellite.cite web | url = http://media.digitalglobe.com/index.php?s=press_release_popup&item=135 | title = DigitalGlobe Successfully Launches Worldview-1 | publisher = DigitalGlobe]

WorldView-1, was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies. Ball Aerospace built the spacecraft bus and the camera (instrument) using the unique off-axis camera design idenitcal to QuickBird with the instrument's focal plane being supplied by ITT Corporation. The camera is a panchromatic imaging system featuring half-meter resolution imagery. With an average revisit time of 1.7 days, WorldView-1 is capable of collecting up to 750,000 square kilometers (290,000 square miles) per day of half-meter imagery.

WorldView-1 was partially financed through an agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Some of the imagery captured by WorldView-1 for the NGA will not be available to the general public. However, WorldView-1 will free capacity on DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite to meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral geospatial imagery.

*Launch Date: September 18, 2007
*Launch Time: 1835 GMT (2:35 p.m. EDT)
*Launch Vehicle: Delta II
*Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

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