The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its commercial launch business, Boeing Launch Services, has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe’s second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle. DigitalGlobe is the provider of the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products. Boeing successfully launched the first satellite in the series, WorldView-1, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on September 18, 2007. A Delta II expendable launch vehicle will carry the WorldView-2 spacecraft into orbit from Vandenberg in mid-2009. Boeing Launch Services purchases the launch vehicle and related support from United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture. WorldView-2 will offer higher collection capacity, more frequent refresh and revisit rates, more spectral information and greater Earth-imaging agility, providing a substantial response to the increased market demands for geospatial data.
DigitalGlobe has also announced they have filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of the company’s common stock. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Lehman Brothers Inc. will serve as joint book-running managers for the offering. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained by contacting: Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, 180 Varick Street, New York, New York 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-866-718-1649 or by email at [email protected]; or Lehman Brothers Inc., c/o Broadridge, Integrated Distribution Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, [email protected], (fax): 631-254-7140, Toll free: 1-888-603-5847. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective—Longmont, Colorado
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