[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

Wed Jul 1 22:43:17 EDT 2009

                             LAUNCH ALERT

                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                         kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                     http://www.spacearchive.info

                                 2009 July 1 (Wednesday) 19:31 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2009 July 1

                    Launch
                 Time/Window
  Date            (PST/PDT)              Vehicle        Pad/Silo
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SEP            ~09:12                   Atlas V         SLC-3
Payload is the DMSP F18 military weather satellite.  

OCT 6          To be announced          Delta II        SLC-2W
Payload is the WorldView-2 commercial reconnaissance satellite.  

NOV 1          To be announced          Delta II        SLC-2W
Payload is the WISE scientific satellite.  

The above schedule is a composite of unclassified information
approved for public release from government, industry, and other
sources. It represents the Editor's best effort to produce a schedule,
but may disagree with other sources. Details on military launches are
withheld until they are approved for public release. For official
information regarding Vandenberg AFB activities, go to
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil.

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                  WORLDVIEW-2 LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCED
      WorldView-2, the first commercial high-resolution 8-band
      multi-spectral satellite, scheduled to launch October 6th 

                     Digital Globe Press Release

LONGMONT, Colo.--, June 19, 2009--DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading
global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products
and services, today announced that its WorldView-2 high-resolution
8-band multi-spectral satellite is scheduled to launch on October 6th,
2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The planned launch of WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe's second
next-generation class high-resolution satellite, is expected to nearly
double DigitalGlobe's collection capabilities to approximately two
million square kilometers per day, enable intra-day revisits to
specific geographic areas, and enhance the company's ability to
collect up-to-date imagery in those areas of greatest interest to its
customers.

The additional capacity and more frequent revisit rate are expected to
provide DigitalGlobe's customers with up-to-date and comprehensive
high-resolution satellite imagery products and services. The planned
launch of WorldView-2 will make DigitalGlobe the only commercial earth
imagery provider with 8-band multi-spectral capability, which has a
more robust color palette and enables enhanced analysis of the earth's
surface. The additional multi-spectral band capability of WorldView-2
is expected to enable higher levels of feature identification and
extraction, and more accurately reflect the world's natural color with
the potential to benefit many applications, including environmental
monitoring, change detection, and defense and intelligence.

Upon launch, WorldView-2 will join DigitalGlobe's two other
high-resolution satellites in orbit, QuickBird and WorldView-1.
WorldView-2 is expected to be able to collect imagery at 0.46 meter
resolution. Due to NOAA operating license restrictions, all imagery
will be re-sampled to 0.50 meter resolution unless the U.S. Government
has granted a customer-specific waiver of the restriction.

DigitalGlobe expects images and products from WorldView-2 to be
available approximately 90 days following a successful launch. Learn
more about WorldView-2 and its expected technical capabilities by
visiting http://worldview2.digitalglobe.com/.

                         About DigitalGlobe

Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe (http://www.digitalglobe.com) is
a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery
products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite
constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses
within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis,
environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure
management as well as internet portals and navigation technology.

With our collection sources, comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing
more than 660 million square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery
products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and services
designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our
imagery into their business operations and applications.

DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe.

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