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DigitalGlobe to launch new satellite which will benefit Google Earth

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, September 15, 2007
16 years ago7,572 views

<< The new spacecraft, dubbed WorldView I, is to be launched on Tuesday.

Together with the company's existing Quickbird satellite, it will offer half-meter resolution and will be able to collect over 600,000 square kilometers of imagery each day, up from the current collection of that amount each week, Chief Executive Jill Smith told Reuters in a telephone interview. >>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070914/tc_nm/digitalglobe_satellite_dc;_ylt=AiSny13V0h44bNzMi7Mle4Ss0NUE

You can watch the launch of the satellite live on 9/18/07:
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/worldview-1/

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[Moved. -Philipp]

WorldView I is the name of a satellite by DigitalGlobe sent into space to make higher resolution satellite pics for clients like Google Earth/ Maps and others, German Spiegel reports. In late 2008, WorldView II is going to help out too. Spiegel says resolutions zooming in as close as 50 centimeters are allowed, and WorldView I is capable of that. WorldView I is actually capable of higher resolutions (e.g. for use for government spies), but would apparently downsize pics before they send them off to Google...

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,506140,00.html

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