DigitalGlobe Announces WorldView-2 Satellite Launch Broadcast
October 01 2009 - 6:00AM
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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 the date and time for the streaming of the WorldView-2
launch, the company's third high-resolution, remote-sensing
satellite.
The launch will be broadcast over the Internet. To view the
webcast, visit:
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/worldview-2/
on Thursday, October 8, 2009, at approximately 11.15 a.m. PDT. The
launch is scheduled for 11.38 a.m. PDT.
Updated information is available on the Boeing Launch Hotline
(714) 896-4770.
The launch of WorldView-2 will make DigitalGlobe the only
commercial world-imagery provider with high-resolution, eight-band
multispectral capability. The additional multispectral band
capability of WorldView-2 is expected to enable higher levels of
feature identification and extraction and more accurately reflect
the world's natural color, with the potential to benefit many
applications, including environmental monitoring, change detection,
and defense and intelligence.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial,
high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for defense
and intelligence, civil 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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the date on which the statement is made or to reflect the
occurrence of unanticipated events.
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