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Launch Date
10/8/2009
Launch Site
V SLC2W
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Launch Vehicle
Delta 7920-10C (Thor Family)
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite provides red-edge imagery at 1.84-meter resolution.
Maxar WorldView-2 captured color infrared views of South Lake Tahoe through smoke on 2021-08-31.
The WorldView Legion telescopes are intended to replace the imaging capacities of WorldView-1, WorldView-2, and GeoEye-1.
DigitalGlobe will support the National Reconnaissance Office with the WorldView-1, WorldView-2, and WorldView-3 satellites as long as they continue to perform.
Maxar is building the WorldView Legion constellation to replace its three oldest satellites: the 11-year-old WorldView-1, the 10-year-old GeoEye-1, and the nine-year-old WorldView-2.
GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, and WorldView-2 together cost more than $1,300,000,000 to build and launch, while WorldView Legion has a projected price tag of $600,000,000.
The NRO pays $300,000,000 per year for access to Maxar’s WorldView-1, WorldView-2, and WorldView-3 satellites and its image library under the program renamed EnhancedView Follow-On.
The NRO pays Maxar $300,000,000 a year for access to WorldView-1, WorldView-2, WorldView-3, GeoEye-1, and Maxar’s image archive.
After the 2016 WorldView-2 debris incident, Maxar used one of its other satellites to image WorldView-2 and determined that the damage was minimal.