WorldView-2 (WV 2) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by Vantor (formerly DigitalGlobe). WorldView-2 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of 0.46m (18in) resolution, and eight-band multispectral imagery with 1.84m (72in) resolution.[4]
It was launched 8 October 2009 to become DigitalGlobe's third satellite in orbit, joining WorldView-1 which was launched in 2007 and QuickBird which was launched in 2001.[5] It takes a new photograph of any place on Earth every 1.1 days.[6]
Design
Ball Aerospace built the spacecraft, which includes an optical telescope that can image objects 18in (460mm) in diameter.
On 19 July 2016, the Joint Space Operations Center reported a debris causing event of at least 9 observable pieces, after which DigitalGlobe demonstrated the satellite to still be functional by releasing an image of downtown Oakland, California.[8][9]
↑"Worldview-2". Magazine article. Asian Surveying and Mapping. 12 October 2009. Archived from the original on 31 October 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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