After five separate fires swept Vandenberg Air Force Base in September, the launch facility received a “green” ready-to-go signal for the successful 11/11 liftoff of an Atlas V rocket carrying a Lockheed Martin DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 satellite. Base crews cleaned up fire retardant, washed and repaired power lines to restore redundant systems, and tested the launch facilities and infrastructure before range operations could commence. The satellite will circuit the sky every 90 minutes and provide high-resolution commercial imagery, including contributions to a 15-year library of time-lapse images, over more than 680,000 square kilometers of the Earth’s surface daily.

Login

Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription

Not a member? Sign up here.