Tag: DigitalGlobe
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Uncontrolled wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base continues to rage
Updated Tuesday @ 1600 GMT with new acreage and containment numbers; adding IR maps Flames burn behind the Atlas 5 rocket pad Monday. Credit: Santa Barbara County Fire Dept. The escalating wildfire at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base grew even larger Monday despite the round-the-clock efforts of firefighters trying to bring the blaze under control…
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Atlas 5 launch postponed by wildfire, Range availability until Sept. 26
(Launch webcast begins at 11:05 a.m. PDT / 2:05 p.m. EDT / 1805 GMT) Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket on the pad with WorldView 4 satellite
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands atop Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on the eve of Friday’s WorldView 4 mission. Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Atlas 5/WorldView 4 launch timeline
This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 11:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. EDT; 1830 GMT). T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…
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Photos: WorldView 4 satellite’s road to launch
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 commercial satellite, which will join sister-spacecraft WorldView 3 in orbit to snap the highest quality Earth imagery available on the market at 31-centimeter resolution, was built by Lockheed Martin and will be launched Friday atop an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. On July 21, WorldView 4 was tucked…
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Idled by Range facility rework for months, Vandenberg ready to launch again Friday
File photo of Atlas 5 at Vandenberg. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA Resuming space launches from the U.S. Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after a half-year infrastructure outage, an Atlas 5 rocket will boost a commercial Earth-imaging bird into orbit on Friday. Using the same United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 built and stacked…
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After three-year wait, commercial imaging observatory shipped for launch
WorldView 4. Credit: Lockheed Martin More than three years after its launch was delayed by a corporate merger, a commercial Earth-imaging satellite has finally shipped to its California rocket base for liftoff aboard an Atlas 5 in September. The WorldView 4 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was moved this week from its factory in Sunnyvale…
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Destructive Canadian wildfire sighted from space
These wide view before and after images from DigitalGlobe’s commercial WorldView 2 Earth observation satellite show the area around Fort McMurray, Alberta, before and after the wildfire. The left image was taken May 29, 2015, and the right image is from May 6, 2016. In these false-color near-infrared images, the bright red areas represent healthy…
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Oktoberfest from orbit
Munich’s Theresienwiese is pictured Oct. 1 from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 2 Earth observing satellite. Credit: DigitalGlobe It turns out the world’s most famous beer festival is visible from space. But even the sharpest-eyed orbiting Earth observatories — at least those known publicly — can’t see the thousands of lederhosen- and dirndl-wearing festival-goers hoisting beer by the…