DigitalGlobe, provider of the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, announced that the launch of WorldView-1 will be broadcast live over the Internet. To view the live launch, visit: www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/worldview-1/ on Tuesday, September 18 at approximately 11:20 AM PDT. The launch is scheduled for 11:35 AM PDT.
“This is an exciting event for not only the companies involved with the launch, but also the growing number of consumers and businesspeople using satellite imagery in their daily lives,” said Jill Smith, CEO of DigitalGlobe. “We’re pleased to share this experience through the live video webcast.”
The high-capacity, panchromatic imaging system features half-meter resolution imagery. With an average revisit time of 1.7 days, WorldView-1 will be capable of collecting up to 750,000 square kilometers (290,000 square miles) per day of half-meter imagery. WorldView-1 is the first of two new next-generation satellites DigitalGlobe plans to launch. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. is scheduled to complete WorldView-2 in late 2008, bringing the total number of satellites DigitalGlobe has in orbit to three and completing a constellation of spacecraft that will offer the highest collection capacity – more than 1 million square kilometers per day – of high-resolution Earth imagery directly to customers around the globe.
Source: DigitalGlobe
