DigitalGlobe has announced that the launch of WorldView-1 from Vandenberg AFB in California will be broadcast live over the Internet on Tuesday, September 18 at approximately 11:20 AM PDT. The launch is scheduled for 11:35 AM PDT. To view the live launch, visit: https://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/worldview-1/
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. This will bring the total number of satellites DigitalGlobe has in orbit to three and completes a constellation of spacecraft that will offer the highest collection capacity of high resolution Earth imagery directly to customers around the globe, to the tune of more than 1 million square kilometers per day.
First imagery from WorldView-1 is expected to be available prior to October 18, the sixth anniversary of the launch of QuickBird, DigitalGlobe’s current satellite. WorldView-1 will have an average revisit time of 1.7 days. The satellite will also be equipped with state-of-the- art geo-location accuracy capabilities and will exhibit rapid targeting and efficient in-track stereo collection.
WorldView-1 is part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)‘s NextView program, which is designed to ensure that the NGA has access to commercial imagery in support of its mission to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security. The majority of the imagery captured by WorldView-1 for the NGA will also be available for sale through DigitalGlobe’s archive. Additionally, the launch of WorldView-1 immediately frees up capacity on DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite to meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral geospatial imagery—Longmont, Colorado
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