Tag: WorldView 4

  • DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite fails

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    The WorldView 4 satellite in Lockheed Martin’s factory in Sunnyvale, California. Credit: Lockheed Martin DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 commercial Earth observation satellite, which launched in 2016 for a planned 10-to-12-year mission, has suffered a failure in its control moment gyros and is no longer able to acquire high-resolution imagery, officials announced Monday. Maxar Technologies, DigitalGlobe’s parent…

  • WorldView 4 high-resolution satellite now open for business in space

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    The launch of WorldView 4 as seen from space by WorldView 2. Credit: DigitalGlobe Less than three months after rocketing into space, the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imagery satellite has finished in-orbit testing and calibration to begin operations for DigitalGlobe. To commemorate the milestone, the company has released a stunning image taken from space of the…

  • Photos: Rollback of pad gantry to reveal Atlas 5 for launch

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    Early Friday morning, the 8-million-pound mobile service tower was retracted from around the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the 189-foot-tall vehicle for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite. Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: Lockheed Martin Credit: Lockheed Martin Credit: Lockheed Martin Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: Lockheed Martin…

  • Photos: Liftoff of Atlas 5 from California

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    A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket departs Vandenberg Air Force Base today at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT) to deliver the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite into polar orbit for DigitalGlobe. Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.

  • Photos: Atlas 5 soars for commercial satellite delivery

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    Launching the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base today at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT). Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.

  • Commercial satellite launched to image the Earth in high-resolution

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    A companion to the world’s most powerful private Earth-imaging satellite rocketed into space today from the U.S. west coast atop an Atlas 5 to double the amount of high-resolution imagery available on the commercial market and satisfy the demands of customers clamoring for more. The 10-year mission of the WorldView 4 satellite began at 10:30:33…

  • Video: Liftoff of WorldView 4 aboard Atlas 5 rocket

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    The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT) today to launch the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. See earlier WorldView…

  • Timeline: Atlas 5/WorldView 4 ascent profile

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    This is the launch 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 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT). T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…

  • Preview: Atlas 5 and WorldView 4 ready to fly after wildfire delay

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    Credit: United Launch Alliance The belated launch of a powerful Earth-imaging satellite that will take the highest resolution pictures in the market, postponed by an unprecedented wildfire near the pad, is scheduled to fly on Friday. A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will propel the WorldView 4 spacecraft into a sun-synchronous polar orbit from…

  • 360 virtual reality: WorldView 4 launch animation

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    DigitalGlobe’s 360 virtual reality preview of Friday’s WorldView 4 satellite launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Liftoff is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. local time to reach a sun-synchronous polar orbit more than 380 miles above Earth. See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.