WorldView-1

WorldView-1 (WV 1) is a commercial <a href="/facts/Earth_observation_satellite/WK2zGRSV">Earth observation satellite</a> owned by <a href="/facts/DigitalGlobe/t0uyAdux">DigitalGlobe</a>. WorldView-1 was launched on 18 September 2007, followed later by the <a href="/facts/WorldView-2/oh0nJ5RT">WorldView-2</a> in 2009. First imagery from WorldView-1 was available in October 2007, prior to the six-year anniversary of the launch of <a href="/facts/QuickBird/I8z2FIee">QuickBird</a>, DigitalGlobe's previous satellite.
WorldView-1 was partially financed through an agreement with the <a href="/facts/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency/DrC6QGyo">National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</a> (NGA). Some of the imagery captured by WorldView-1 for the NGA is not available to the general public. However, WorldView-1 freed capacity on DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite to meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral <a href="/facts/Geospatial/FUSjSQ71">geospatial</a> imagery.

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