DigitalGlobe Announces the Successful Launch of WorldView-2

LONGMONT, CO, Oct 08 (MARKET WIRE) --
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial
high-resolution world-imagery products and services for defense and
intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, today announced
the successful launch and deployment of WorldView-2, the company's latest
high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite. The satellite launched on a
Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The DigitalGlobe ground station received a downlink signal confirming that
the satellite successfully separated from its launch vehicle and
automatically initialized its onboard processors. WorldView-2 is currently
undergoing a calibration and check-out period. DigitalGlobe expects
imagery products and services from WorldView-2 to be commercially
available in approximately 90 days.

"The successful launch of WorldView-2 is an important milestone for the
industry and for DigitalGlobe," said Jill Smith, chairman and chief
executive officer of DigitalGlobe. "Once commissioned, WorldView-2 will
effectively double DigitalGlobe's collection capacity, enabling us to
provide at least annually updated coverage of the world as well as
intra-day revisit for more rapid and reliable collection for our
customers. Additionally, WorldView-2's eight spectral bands will
significantly enhance our ability to meet our customers' needs for
feature identification, change, detection, and other high-value services."

As the most recent of the next-generation WorldView-class satellites,
WorldView-2 features advanced agility and accuracy, industry-leading
capacity, and eight-band multispectral imagery. WorldView-2 will collect
multispectral imagery at 1.8 meter resolution and panchromatic imagery at
.46 meters.(1) The additional band capability supports improved levels of
feature identification and extraction and more accurately reflects the
world's natural color.

The satellite was built by Ball Aerospace (NYSE: BLL) and the imaging
sensor was provided by ITT Corporation's (NYSE: ITT) Space Systems
Division.

To learn more about advanced DigitalGlobe's constellation of sub-meter
satellites, please visit www.digitalglobe.com.

About DigitalGlobe

DigitalGlobe (http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a leading global provider of
commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced
from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions
support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil
agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas
exploration, infrastructure management, internet portals and navigation
technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary
(containing more than 730 million square kilometers of earth imagery and
imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and
services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our
imagery into their business operations and applications. For more
information, please visit www.digitalglobe.com.

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(1) Due to current U.S. government restrictions. All imagery will be
re-sampled to 2.0 meter multispectral and 0.50 meter panchromatic
resolution unless the U.S. government has granted a customer specific
waiver of the restriction.

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