QuickBird 2
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QuickBird was a high-resolution commercial Earth observation satellite, owned by DigitalGlobe, launched in 2001 and reentered after orbit decay in 2015. QuickBird used Ball Aerospace's Global Imaging System 2000 (BGIS 2000). The satellite collected panchromatic (black and white) imagery at 61 centimeter resolution and multispectral imagery at 2.44- (at 450 km) to 1.63-meter (at 300 km) resolution, as orbit altitude is lowered during the end of mission life.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- DigitalGlobe
- Country of origin
- United States
- Mass
- 980
- Manufacturer
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- start point
- Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2001-10-18
- space launch vehicle
- Delta II
- time of object orbit decay
- 2015-01-27
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- QuickBird I
- QuickBird II
- Mission Extension
- Decaying
- Specifications
- Launch
- See also
- References
- External links
QuickBird was a high-resolution commercial Earth observation satellite, owned by DigitalGlobe, launched in 2001 and reentered after orbit decay in 2015. QuickBird used Ball Aerospace's Global Imaging System 2000 (BGIS 2000). The satellite collected panchromatic (black and white) imagery at 61 centimeter resolution and multispectral imagery at 2.44- (at 450 km) to 1.63-meter (at 300 km) resolution, as orbit altitude is lowered during the end of mission life.
At this resolution, detail such as buildings and other infrastructure are easily visible. However, this resolution is insufficient for working with smaller objects such as a license plate on a car. The imagery can be imported into remote sensing image processing software, as well as into GIS packages for analysis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “QuickBird 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.