WorldView-3
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| Mission type | Earth observation |
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| Operator | Vantor |
| COSPAR ID | 2014-048A |
| SATCAT no. | 40115 |
| Website | [1][2] |
| Mission duration | Planned: 7.25 years Elapsed: Template:Time interval |
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| Spacecraft properties | |
| Bus | BCP-5000[1] |
| Manufacturer | Ball Aerospace |
| Launch mass | 2,800 kg (6,200 lb) |
| Power | 3100 watts |
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| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | Template:Start-date UTC[2] |
| Rocket | Atlas V 401, AV-047[2] |
| Launch site | Vandenberg SLC-3E[2] |
| Contractor | Lockheed Martin / United Launch Alliance |
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| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Sun-synchronous |
| Perigee altitude | 619 kilometers (385 mi)[3] |
| Apogee altitude | 622 kilometers (386 mi)[3] |
| Inclination | 97.97 degrees[3] |
| Period | 96.98 minutes[3] |
| Epoch | 25 January 2015, 05:15:06 UTC[3] |
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WorldView-3 (WV 3) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by Vantor. It was launched on 13 August 2014 to become Maxar's sixth satellite in orbit, joining Ikonos which was launched in 1999, QuickBird in 2001, WorldView-1 in 2007, GeoEye-1 in 2008, and WorldView-2 in 2009. WorldView-3 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of 0.31 m (12 in) resolution, eight-band multispectral imagery with 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) resolution, shortwave infrared imagery at 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) resolution, and CAVIS (Clouds, Aerosols, Vapors, Ice, and Snow) data at 30 m (98 ft) resolution.[4]
Launch
WorldView-3 was launched on 13 August 2014 from Vandenberg Air Force Base on an Atlas V flying in the 401 configuration. The launch vehicle was provided by United Launch Alliance and launch services were administered by Lockheed Martin.
Notable uses
Satellite images from WorldView-3 were used in 2015 by an international team of archaeologists to discover what they then believed to be a Viking settlement on Point Rosee, Newfoundland.[5]
From 2020, Scientists are using WorldView-3 to count and detect wildlife species, including African elephants. They used satellite imagery that required no ground presence to monitor the elephants. The team created a training dataset of 1,000 elephants and fed it to a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and compared the results to human performance.[6]
On 7 October 2022 the satellite took an on orbit image of Landsat 8.[7]
See also
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WorldView 2, 3 (WV 2, 3)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WORLDVIEW-3 (WV-3) Satellite details 2014-048A NORAD 40115". N2YO. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WorldView-3 (WV-3)". satellites. Geoimage. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blumenthal, Ralph (March 31, 2016). "View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Explained: How scientists are counting elephants from space". www.msn.com. Archived from the original on January 30, 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Parken, Oliver; Rogoway, Tyler (6 April 2023). "Check Out These Images Of A Satellite In Orbit Taken By Another Satellite". The Drive. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
External links
- Vantor Constellation WorldView-3 at Vantor
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