[Satellite News 02-26-09] DigitalGlobe‘s WorldView 2 remote sensing instrument, provided by ITT Corp., has been integrated by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. into the WorldView 2 spacecraft, DigitalGlobe announced Feb. 24.
    DigitalGlobe is running system-level environmental testing on the instrument. “The construction of the WorldView 2 satellite is on track and we are pleased with the progress to date," Jill Smith, CEO of DigitalGlobe, said in a statement.
    The third in DigitalGlobe’s constellation of commercial remote sensing satellites, WorldView 2 aims to expand DigitalGlobe’s image collection capabilities to nearly 2 million square kilometers per day and enable faster collection of the world’s geography with multiple daily revisits to a single location.