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OAS platform Detail for Worldview-2
| platforms_id: | 14031 |
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| Name: | Worldview-2 |
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| Countries: | European Union |
| Comments: | Earth Observation Satellite Late in 2003, Maxar had received a contract from NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) of Washington DC to provide high-resolution imagery from the next-generation commercial imaging satellites. The contract award was made within NGA's NextView programme. The NGA requirements called for imagery with a spatial resolution of 0.5 m panchromatic and 2 m MS (Multispectral) data. Like its Worldview-1 predecessor, the WorldView-2 spacecraft was manufactured at BATC (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation) which was awarded a contract in late 2006. BATC provided its BCP 5000 (Ball Commercial Platform 5000) spacecraft bus for WorldView-2 and integrated the remote sensing instrument onto the bus - with WorldView-2, a larger imaging payload was mounted onto the same spacecraft bus as that used for WorldView-1. The BCP-5000 bus provides state-of-the-art power, stability, agility, data storage and data transmission (over the BCP-2000 bus). WorldView-2 was Maxar's third satellite in orbit, joining WorldView-1 which was launched in 2007 and QuickBird which was launched in 2001. Info source: https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/worldview-2/description |
| Deprecated: | false |
| Metadata version: | 0 |
| Keydate: | 2024-05-23 14:23:07+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-05-23 14:23:07+00 |