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August 13th, 2014
Credit: ULA
An Atlas V 401 booster is set to launch today DigitalGlobe’s super-powerful Earth observation satellite: WorldView-3.
It’s a melding of mile-high Colorado-based space technology.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V is provided by Denver’s Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, hurling into space the Boulder-headquartered Ball Aerospace-built WorldView-3 – a spacecraft to be operated by DigitalGlobe, based in Longmont, Colorado.
WorldView-3 will enhance DigitalGlobe’s satellite constellation and will further support customers across a variety of industries, such as agriculture, mining, and oil and gas.
Date/Site/Launch Time: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
WorldView-3 will be the 10th of 15 planned missions ULA is slated to launch in 2014, and ULA’s 87th since the company formed in 2006.
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3, built by Ball Aerospace, being encapsulated in nose cone shrouds prior to launch atop an Atlas V 401 booster.
Courtesy: Ball Aerospace
The 15-minute launch window opens at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).To view the launch by webcast: The live webcast will begin at 11:10 a.m. PDT.
NOTE: To view the launch, go to:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/webcast.aspx
For more information about the WorldView-3 satellite, visit:
http://worldview3.digitalglobe.com/
To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline at 1-877-852-4321 or join the conversation at:
https://www.facebook.com/ulalaunch
and
twitter.com/ulalaunch; hashtag #WV3
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