WorldView-2

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The WorldView-2 satellite was launched on October 8, 2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It has improved agility over the WorldView-1 and can act like a paintbrush by sweeping back and forth to collect a large area of data in one single path. It can collect 1 million square kilometers of multispectral imagery. It has a revisit time of approximately 1.1 days. The sensor has a high resolution panchromatic band and 8 multispectral bands. There are four standard bands; red, green, blue, and near-infrared and four new bands; coastal, yellow, red edge, and near-infrared 2.

WorldView-2 has a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 770 kilometers. Its orbit period is 100 minutes and it has a 7.25 year mission life.

Saudi Arabia: October 21, 2009 King Fahd International Stadium

Australia: October 20, 2009 Sydney Olympic Complex