DigitalGlobe To Change WorldView-2 Orbit

By Michael A. Taverna

PARIS — Barely days after ordering a new spacecraft for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) EnhancedView initiative, DigitalGlobe says it will lower the altitude of its WorldView-2 spacecraft, launched in 2009, to enhance spacecraft performance.

The move, set for September 2011, will drop the satellite to 680 km. (420 mi.), from 770 km. now. To compensate, ...

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