Launch Date	September 18, 2007
Launch Vehicle	Boeing Delta 7920 (9-strap-ons)
Launch Location	Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA
Orbit Altitude	496 Km
Orbit Inclination	sun-synchronous
Spacecraft Size, Mass & Power	3.6 meters (12 feet) tall x 2.5 meters (8 feet) across, 7.1 meters (23 feet) across the deployed solar arrays 2500 kilograms (5500 pounds) 3.2 kW solar array, 100 Ahr battery
Equator Crossing Time	10:30 AM (descending node)
Revisit Time	1.7 days at 1 meter GSD or less 5.9 days at 20° off-nadir or less (0.51 meter GSD)
Swath Width	17.6 Km at nadir
Full Scene	17.6 Km x 14 Km or 246.4 Km2at nadir
Orbit Time	94.6 minutes
Dynamic Range	11 bits per pixel
Resolution	0.50 meters GSD at nadir 0.55 meters GSD at 20° off-nadir (note that imagery must be re-sampled to 0.5 meters for non-US Government customers)
Sensor Bands	Panchromatic
Metric Accuracy	Accuracy: <500 meters at image start and stop Knowledge: Supports geolocation accuracy below
Geolocation Accuracy (CE 90%)	Demonstrated <4.0 m CE90 without ground control
Retargeting Ability	Acceleration: 2.5 deg/s/s Rate: 4.5 deg/s Time to slew 300 kilometers: 9 seconds
Attitude Determination and Control	3-axis stabilized Actuators: Control Moment Gyros (CMGs) Sensors: Star trackers, solid state IRU, GPS
Onboard Storage	2199 gigabits solid state with EDAC
Communications	Image and Ancillary Data: 800 Mbps X-band Housekeeping: 4, 16 or 32 kbps real-time, 524 kbps stored, X-band Command: 2 or 64 kbps S-band
Max Viewing Angle / Accessible Ground Swath	60 x 110 km mono 30 x 110 km stereo

WorldView-3,4 Satellite Sensor Specifications

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Launch Date	August 13, 2014
Orbit	Altitude: 617 km Type: SunSync, 1:30 pm descending Node Period: 97 min.
Life	Spec Mission Life; 7.25 years Estimated Service Life: 10 to 12 years
Spacecraft Size, Mass and Power	Size: 5.7 m (18.7 feet) tall x 2.5 m (8 feet) across, 7.1 m (23 feet) across the deployed solar arrays Mass: 2800 kilograms (6200 pounds) Power: 3.1 kW solar array, 100 Ahr battery
Sensor Bands	Panchromatic: 450-800 nm 8 Multispectral: (red, red edge, coastal, blue, green, yellow, near-IR1 and near-IR2) 400 nm - 1040 nm 8 SWIR: 1195 nm - 2365 nm 12 CAVIS Bands: (desert clouds, aerosol-1, aerosol-2, aerosol-3, green, water-1, water- 2, water-3, NDVI-SWIR, cirrus, snow) 405 nm - 2245 nm
Sensor Resolution ( or GSD, Ground Sample Distance; off-nadir is geometric mean)	Panchromatic Nadir: 0.31 m GSD at Nadir 0.34 m at 20° Off-Nadir Multispectral Nadir: 1.24 m at Nadir, 1.38 m at 20° Off-Nadir SWIR Nadir: 3.70 m at Nadir, 4.10 m at 20° Off-Nadir (Commercial delivery at 7.5m resolution) CAVIS Nadir: 30.00 m
Dynamic Range	11-bits per pixel Pan and MS; 14-bits per pixel SWIR
Swath Width	At nadir: 13.1 km
Attitude Determination and Control	Type: 3-axis stabilized Actuators: Control Moment Gyros (CMGs) Sensors: Star trackers, precision, IRU, GPS
Pointing Accuracy and Knowledge	Accuracy: <500 m at image start and stop Knowledge: Supports geolocation accuracy below
Retargeting Agility	Time to slew 200 km: 12 seconds
Onboard Storage	2199 Gb solid state with EDAC
Communications	Image & Ancillary: 800 & 1200 Mbps X-band Housekeeping: 4, 16, 32 or 64 kbps real-time, 524 kbps stored, X-band Command: 2 0r 64 kbps S-band
Max Contiguous Area Collected in a Single Pass (30° off-nadir angle)	Mono: 66.5 km x 112 km (5 strips) Stereo: 26.6 km x 112 km (2 pairs)
Revisit Frequency(at 40°N Latitude)	1 m GSD: <1.0 day 4.5 days at 20° off-nadir or less
Geolocation Accuracy(CE90)	Predicted Performance: <3.5 m CE90 without ground control
Capacity	680,000 km2 per day