''WorldView-1'' (WV 1) is a commercial

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owned by

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. WorldView-1 was launched on 18 September 2007, followed later by the ''

WorldView-2 ''WorldView-2'' (WV 2) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe. ''WorldView-2'' provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of resolution, and eight-band multispectral imagery with resolution. It was launc ...

'' in 2009. First imagery from ''WorldView-1'' was available in October 2007, prior to the six-year anniversary of the launch of ''

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'', DigitalGlobe's previous satellite. ''WorldView-1'' was partially financed through an agreement with the

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(NGA). Some of the imagery captured by ''WorldView-1'' for the NGA is not available to the general public. However, ''WorldView-1'' freed capacity on DigitalGlobe's ''QuickBird'' satellite to meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral

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imagery.

Design

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built the ''WorldView-1''

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and camera using an off-axis camera design identical to ''Quickbird'', with the instrument's focal plane being supplied by ITT Exelis. The camera is a

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imaging system featuring half-meter resolution imagery. With an average revisit time of 1.7 days, ''WorldView-1'' is capable of collecting up to per day of half-meter imagery.

Launch

* Launch Date: 18 September 2007 * Launch Time: 18:35 UTC (2:35 p.m. EDT) * Launch Vehicle:

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7920-10C, s/n D-326 * Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 2 West,

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