WorldView-2
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WorldView-2 (WV 2) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by Vantor (formerly DigitalGlobe). WorldView-2 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of resolution, and eight-band multispectral imagery with resolution.
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WorldView-2 (WV 2) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by Vantor (formerly DigitalGlobe). WorldView-2 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of resolution, and eight-band multispectral imagery with resolution.
It was launched 8 October 2009 to become DigitalGlobe's third satellite in orbit, joining WorldView-1 which was launched in 2007 and QuickBird which was launched in 2001. It takes a new photograph of any place on Earth every 1.1 days.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WorldView-2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.