WorldView-2 was launched in October 2009 to continue DigitalGlobe’s goal to provide unparalleled imaging capability for an eight-year planned mission. WV-2 was the first high-resolution 8-band multispectral commercial satellite and operates from an altitude of 770 kilometers with an average revisit time of 1.1 days.

08/10/2009 · The satellite has been derived from its predecessor variant Worldview-1, which is a remote-sensing satellite developed by Ball Aerospace. The Worldview-1 was launched on 18 September 2007 and captures areas of up to 500,000 square kilometres (200,000 square miles) of half-metre imagery a day.

29/12/2021 · WorldView-3 Satellite Overview Photo: Ball Aerospace. WorldView-3 is a commercial Earth Observation Satellite operated by DigitalGlobe, a U.S. company offering high-resolution satellite imagery on the commercial market. The satellite is the most powerful commercial Earth Observation spacecraft ever launched to join DigitalGlobe’s existing ...

Figure 3: Common spacecraft bus of WorldView-1 and -2 (image credit: DigitalGlobe) The advanced CMGs (Control Moment Gyroscopes) provided by Ball Aerospace for WorldView-2, as well as for DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1, afford the satellites the flexibility to capture more imagery than ever before. This high-performance technology provides acceleration up to 10 times that …

Design. Ball Aerospace built the WorldView-1 satellite bus and camera using an off-axis camera design identical to Quickbird, with the instrument's focal plane being supplied by ITT Exelis.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 …

WorldView-3 (WV-3) Spacecraft Launch Mission Status Sensor Complement References. WorldView-3 is a next generation commercial imaging mission of DigitalGlobe Inc., Longmont, CO, USA. With the addition of WV-3 to its satellite constellation (in addition to QuickBird, WorldView-1 and WorldView-2), DigitalGlobe will be capable of collecting ~1 billion km 2 of Earth imagery …

The WorldView mission is intended to provide imaging services to NGA as well as to the commercial customer base of DigitalGlobe. Spacecraft: BATC (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, CO, is the prime contractor and integrator of the spacecraft, providing the S/C bus (Ball Commercial Platform BCP-5000) and a WorldView-60 camera.

WorldView Legion 1 & 2. Type: Earth Science. WorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation satellites built and operated by Maxar. Constellation is planned to consist of 6 satellites in both polar and mid-inclination orbits, providing 30 cm-class resolution.