DigitalGlobe Selects Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services for WorldView-3 Satellite Launch
March 15 2011 - 9:20AM
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DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global content provider of
high-resolution earth imagery solutions, has contracted with
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services for the launch of
WorldView-3.
Once launched, WorldView-3 will be the third WorldView-class
satellite in DigitalGlobe's constellation. The satellite is
scheduled for launch in 2014. It will feature the same innovative
technologies that have helped DigitalGlobe amass the largest high
definition satellite image library in the world, and speed up the
daily process of collecting, analyzing and delivering imagery and
information to customers.
"The need for up-to-date satellite imagery and the insights it
provides to our government and commercial customers grows every
day," said DigitalGlobe Chairman and CEO, Jill Smith. "We are
significantly enhancing our commercial satellite constellation with
WorldView-3, and are delighted to name Lockheed Martin and its
United Launch Alliance subcontractor as our launch services
partners. Their teams have consistently demonstrated the highest
degree of reliability on many important space missions. We are
confident that our own mission with them will be a success."
WorldView-3 will be launched on a Lockheed Martin Commercial
Launch Services-provided Atlas V rocket into a sun-synchronous
orbit from Vandenberg AFB, California, and will be operational
approximately 90 days after launch. With WorldView-3 in orbit, the
DigitalGlobe constellation will be capable of collecting more than
1 billion square kilometers per year.
WorldView-3 will be the third DigitalGlobe satellite to feature
Control Moment Gyros (CMG), which makes DigitalGlobe's satellites
more agile so that they can collect imagery of larger areas faster
and with greater flexibility. It will also be the second satellite
to feature 8-band multi-spectral technology, which allows
DigitalGlobe to collect more data from images; automatically
extract more information from them; and deliver deeper insight to
customers. Both technologies are currently available exclusively
within the DigitalGlobe constellation.
DigitalGlobe continues to expect that its total capital spending
program associated with EnhancedView, including the launch of
WorldView-3 and expanded ground infrastructure, will be
approximately $650 million between 2010 and 2014.
About DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is a
leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery
products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite
constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses
within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and
analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration,
infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation
technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive
ImageLibrary (containing more than one billion square kilometers of
earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and
off-line products and services designed to enable customers to
easily access and integrate our imagery into their business
operations and applications. For more information, visit
http://www.digitalglobe.com.
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