DigitalGlobe Unveils Plans for Next-Generation Spacecraft Constellation

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Longmont CO - Mar 24, 2004
DigitalGlobe has unveiled details of the company's next-generation imaging satellite, WorldView. The new satellite, set to launch no later than 2006, will be the world's highest resolution commercial imaging satellite with better agility, accuracy and collection capacity than any other known commercial system.

The WorldView imaging system will allow DigitalGlobe to substantially expand its imagery product offerings to both commercial and government customers worldwide.

Once launched, WorldView will be the world's only half-meter resolution commercial imaging satellite, capable of collecting images with 50-centimeter panchromatic resolution and 2.0-meter multispectral resolution. Added spectral diversity will provide the ability to perform precise change detection and mapping.

WorldView will incorporate the industry standard four multispectral bands (red, blue, green, near-infrared) and will also include four new bands (coastal, yellow, red edge, and near-infrared 2).

When combined with DigitalGlobe's existing QuickBird satellite, the company's imaging constellation will be capable of collecting more than 4.5 times the imagery of any current commercial imaging system.

By late 2006, WorldView alone will be capable of collecting up to 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 sq. mi.) Per day of half-meter imagery. The satellite will also be equipped with state-of-the-art geo-location accuracy capability and will exhibit stunning agility with rapid targeting and efficient in-track stereo collection.

WorldView's higher orbit of nearly 800 kilometers will allow the satellite to revisit collection areas more frequently, letting customers repeat their image acquisitions about once a day.

Other impressive capabilities of the WorldView system include more efficient image processing systems and multi-satellite collection planning, shorter tasking timelines, and an expanded network of remote ground terminals.

"WorldView will help DigitalGlobe respond to our customers' clearly articulated need for an expanded source of geospatial information products," said Herb Satterlee, chairman and CEO of DigitalGlobe. "We thank our talented and capable team of GIS and aerospace partners for making the WorldView system a reality," he added.

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Huntsville - Mar 23, 2004
Last year more than a million people died of malaria, mostly in Sub-saharan Africa. Outbreaks of Dengue Fever, hantavirus, West Nile Fever, Rift Valley Fever, and even Plague still occasionally strike villages, towns, and whole regions. To the dozens or hundreds who suffer painful deaths, and to their loved ones, these diseases must seem to spring upon them from nowhere.

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