The WorldView Legion telescopes are intended to replace the imaging capacities of WorldView-1, WorldView-2, and GeoEye-1.
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.
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.
Ball Aerospace built the first two WorldView satellites and General Dynamics built GeoEye-1.
In 2010 Orbit Logic designed, developed, and tested a mobile handheld app to task the GeoEye-1 commercial high-resolution imaging satellite under a Phase I DARPA SBIR award.
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.