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DigitalGlobe launches super-sharp WorldView-3 Earth imager

The most powerful commercial imaging satellite ever built has just gone into orbit from California, US.
DigitalGlobe's WorldView-3 spacecraft will return pictures of the Earth's surface down to a resolution of 31cm.

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A commercial Earth-imaging satellite will ride to space aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2014, the second nongovernment mission acquired for the West Coast booster in the past six months.
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, announced Tuesday that DigitalGlobe had picked Atlas 5 to launch that companys next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, WorldView-3.

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