DigitalGlobe Receives New Scheduled Launch Date of October 8, 2009
September 25 2009 - 11:43AM
Marketwired
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial
high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for defense
and intelligence, civil government, and commercial clients, today
announced that it has received October 8, 2009, as the new
scheduled launch date for its WorldView-2 high-resolution
remote-sensing satellite. WorldView-2 will launch on a Boeing Delta
II launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Upon launch, WorldView-2 will join DigitalGlobe's two other
high-resolution satellites in orbit, QuickBird and WorldView-1.
WorldView-2 is the first commercial high-resolution satellite with
eight-band multispectral imagery collection capabilities.
DigitalGlobe expects images and products from WorldView-2 to be
commercially available approximately 90 days after a successful
launch.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial,
high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for defense
and intelligence, government, and commercial clients. Sourced from
its own advanced satellite constellation, DigitalGlobe's imagery
solutions support a wide variety of uses for government agencies,
civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil
and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals,
and navigation technology. With advanced collection sources and a
comprehensive ImageLibrary containing more than 730 million square
kilometers of imagery and imagery products, DigitalGlobe offers a
range of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable
clients to access and integrate imagery seamlessly into business
operations and applications. For more information, please visit
www.digitalglobe.com.
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