DigitalGlobe Successfully Launches Worldview-1 (Forwarded)

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September 18, 2007

DigitalGlobe Successfully Launches Worldview-1

Industry Leading Provider of Satellite Imagery Improves Capacity,
Flexibility and Agility with Second High-Resolution Satellite in Growing
Constellation

Longmont, Colo. -- DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest-resolution
commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today
announced the successful launch and deployment of WorldView-1, the most
agile commercial satellite ever flown. The satellite launched at
approximately 11:35 AM PDT on a Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket from Vandenberg
Air Force Base in California, USA. The launch of WorldView-1 marks 75
consecutive successful launches of a Delta II rocket and the second
successful commercial launch for Boeing Launch Services in 2007.

Shortly after the launch, a DigitalGlobe ground station received a downlink
signal confirming that the satellite successfully separated from its launch
vehicle and had automatically initialized its onboard processors.
WorldView-1 is currently undergoing a calibration and check-out period and
will deliver imagery soon after. First imagery from WorldView-1 is expected
to be available prior to October 18, the six-year anniversary of the launch
of QuickBird, DigitalGlobe's current satellite.

"The successful launch of WorldView-1 represents the hard work of hundreds
of DigitalGlobe employees, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, ITT
Corporation and dozens of partner organizations," said Jill Smith, chief
executive officer of DigitalGlobe. "The addition of WorldView-1 to our
growing constellation of satellites is a testament of our commitment to our
customers. We look forward to supplying the growing market with an
unprecedented offering of high-resolution geospatial products."

WorldView-1, built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation with the
imaging sensor provided by ITT Corporation, is a high-capacity, panchromatic
imaging system featuring half-meter resolution imagery. With an average
revisit time of 1.7 days, WorldView-1 is capable of collecting up to 750,000
square kilometers (290,000 square miles) per day of half-meter imagery.
Frequent revisits will increase image collection opportunities, enhance
change detection applications and enable accurate map updates. The satellite
is capable of collecting, storing and downlinking more frequently updated
global imagery products than any other commercial imaging satellite in
orbit, allowing for expedited image capture, processing and delivery to
customers where speed is a driving factor. WorldView-1 is equipped with
state-of-the-art geo-location accuracy capability and exhibits unprecedented
agility with rapid targeting and efficient in-track stereo collection.

WorldView-1 is part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA)
NextView program, and was partially financed through an agreement with the
NGA. The majority of the imagery captured by WorldView-1 for the NGA will
also be available for distribution through DigitalGlobe's ImageLibrary.
Additionally, WorldView-1 immediately frees capacity on DigitalGlobe's
QuickBird satellite to meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral
geospatial imagery.

WorldView-1 is the first of two new next-generation satellites DigitalGlobe
plans to launch in the near term. In late 2008, Ball Aerospace and
Technologies Corp. and ITT Corporation will complete WorldView-2, bringing
the total number of satellites DigitalGlobe has in orbit to three and
enabling the company to offer a constellation of spacecraft that will
provide the highest collection capacity -- more than 1 million square
kilometers per day -- of high-resolution Earth imagery directly to customers
around the world. Additionally, WorldView-2 will provide eight bands of
multi-spectral for life-like true color imagery and greater spectral
applications in the mapping and monitoring markets.

About DigitalGlobe

Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe (www.digitalglobe.com) is the clear
leader in the global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information
market. The company's technical superiority and innovation, unparalleled
commitment to customer service, extensive business partner network and open
systems philosophy make DigitalGlobe the preferred supplier of imagery
products to government and commercial markets. DigitalGlobe is the only
geospatial content provider to take an end-to-end approach to geospatial
imagery, from acquiring proprietary high-resolution images through a
leading- edge satellite and aerial network, to integrating and distributing
that data through GlobeXplorer, a proprietary Web-based search and retrieval
system that makes it easy to find, purchase and download global imagery.
DigitalGlobe currently operates the world's highest-resolution commercial
satellite constellation with QuickBird and the first of two next-generation
satellites, WorldView-1. The company plans to complete construction of its
second next-generation satellite, WorldView-2 in late 2008. The company's
updated and growing ImageLibrary contains more than three hundred million
square kilometers of satellite and aerial imagery suited to countless
applications for people who map, view, navigate and study the earth.

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[NOTE: An image of the launch is available at
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/...70918b_pr.html ]