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DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1's Launch Successful

posted by Satri on Friday September 21, @05:15PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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DigitalGlobe successfully launched their WorldView-1 high resolution earth observation satellite. From the press release: "DigitalGlobe, provider of the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced the successful launch and deployment of WorldView-1, the most agile commercial satellite ever flown. [...] WorldView-1, built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation with the imaging sensor provided by ITT Corporation, is a high-capacity, 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 kilometers (290,000 square miles) per day of half-meter imagery." Directions Mag have some screenshots, while the Spatial Law blog underlines: "Some questions arose in connection with the launch regarding what restrictions the US government puts on the operations of commercial imaging satellites and under what authority."

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• And here the first images...

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  by Satri (3) on Wednesday October 17, @09:14AM (#1869)
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  Here [digitalglobe.com].