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Artist’s concept of WorldView-4 in orbit. Image Credit: Lockheed Martin After almost two months of delays, caused by raging wildland fires which swept across vast areas of Vandenberg’s North and South Base, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully roared away from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3E at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 […] 
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite is readied for encapsulation in the Atlas V payload fairing on 8 September 2016. Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin Twenty-five months after the WorldView-3 commercial Earth-imaging satellite was launched into orbit, its near-twin is set to rocket out of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., no sooner than Friday, 16 September, atop […] United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V roars away from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:30:30 a.m. PDT Wednesday, 13 August, to deliver WorldView-3 into orbit. Photo Credit: Robert C. Fisher/AmericaSpace Flying for a third time in less than three weeks, its second Atlas V in only 12 days and its tenth overall mission […] From early 2015, WorldView-3 will provide the finest resolution ever attained by commercial Earth-imaging satellites outside the military. Photo Credit: Ball Aerospace A few weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Commerce gave permission for DigitalGlobe—the Longmont, Colo.-based provider of commercial space imagery and geospatial content—to collect and sell Earth imagery at resolutions never […] |
 NASA will test fire the 212 foot tall core stage of SLS on the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center. Programming starts at 4:20 Eastern, test fire from 5pm. Click here for more details...  |
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