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Article: United States: Ball Aerospace-built WorldView-2 Satellite Successfully Launched.
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- October 10, 2009
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The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite designed and built for DigitalGlobe successfully launched today from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 11:51 a.m. PDT, on board a Boeing Delta II rocket.
WorldView-2 joins its sister satellites built by Ball Aerospace: WorldView-1 launched in 2007, and QuickBird launched in 2001. The satellite trio is expected to bring unsurpassed agility, capacity, accuracy and spectral diversity to commercial earth imaging.
"The successful launch of WorldView-2 marks a new milestone for the collection of imagery by these highly sophisticated satellites," said President and CEO of Ball ...