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A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket is to launch the WorldView 1 commercial Earth-imaging spacecraft from SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, US, between 18:35-18:49 GMT (2:35-2:49 p.m. EDT), 18th September.
The satellite will be positioned into a Sun-synchronous orbit for the DigitalGlobe company.

We're flying what are called Control-Moment Gyros on WorldView-1 - it's the first time they've been flown commercially on an imaging satellite. It allows WorldView-1 to point about 10 times quicker than our current satellite. ... All in all, the collection capacity of WorldView is about five times what we can currently collect with Quickbird, so being able to satisfy many more customer orders and larger area collections is really the big differentiator from QuickBird to our new satellite, WorldView-1 - Chuck Herring, DigitalGlobe director of corporate communications.

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Google Earth gets assisted by new satellite
Sure, you may be able to waste hours on end controlling Google Earth imagery with your Wiimote, but you can plan on killing days -- nay, months -- after a brand new "high-resolution satellite" launches on Tuesday in an attempt to "boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive."

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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said it completed assembling and testing of a next-generation commercial spy satellite for DigitalGlobe and will deliver the spacecraft for a mid-September launch.
The high-resolution spacecraft - initially planned for deployment in 2006 - will launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The WorldView I satellite will be capable of photographing objects about 1 to 2 feet across. It will orbit a little more than 300 miles in space.

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