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Lockheed Martin To Launch Commercial Satellite For Earth Imagery

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

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Lockheed Martin To Launch Commercial Satellite For Earth Imagery

A launch of an Atlas V rocket. Photo: United Launch Alliance

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] commercial launch services plans to put a new WorldView-3 remote sensing satellite into space on Wednesday on behalf of customer DigitalGlobe, a commercial provider of Earth observation imagery. The launch is slated to take place at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., in mid-afternoon eastern time. WorldView-3 will be carried by an Atlas V rocket, and if successful, would mark the 118 Atlas V launch since 2002. WorldView-3 is the first multi-payload, super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite for earth observations and…

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