WorldView 3 - Atlas V 401 - Ванденберг SLC-3E - 13.08.2014 - 18:30 UTC

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http://www.ulalaunch.com/atlas-v-to-launch-worldview-3.aspx?title=Lockheed+Martin+Commercial+Launch+Services+to+Launch+WorldView-3+Aboard+ULA+Atlas+V&Category=2

Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services to Launch WorldView-3 Aboard ULA Atlas V

Rocket/Payload:An Atlas V 401 will launch the WorldView-3 for Digital Globe. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V is provided by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services.

Date/Site/Launch Time: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The 15-minute launch window opens at 11:30 a.m. PDT.

Viewing the Launch by Webcast: The live webcast will begin at 11:10 a.m. PDT.

Mission Description: WorldView-3 will enhance DigitalGlobe's industry-leading constellation and will further support customers across a variety of industries, such as agriculture, mining, and oil and gas. For more information about the WorldView-3 satellite, visit http://worldview3.digitalglobe.com/.

Launch Notes: WorldView-3 will be the 10th of 15 planned missions ULA is slated to launch in 2014, and ULA's 86th since the company formed in 2006.

Launch Updates: To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline at 1-877-852-4321 or join the conversation at www.facebook.com/ulalaunch and twitter.com/ulalaunch; hashtag #WV3.

Go Atlas! Go Centaur! Go WorldView-3!

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http://worldview3.digitalglobe.com/

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Отличия между "военными" и "гражданскими"  КА практически стерты[IMG].

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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av047/preview.html#.U-hBFaP-5eI

New commercial eye in the sky launching Wednesday
BY SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: August 9, 2014;
 
The world's most capable commercial Earth-imaging satellite will be launched into space Wednesday atop an Atlas rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Credit: Lockheed Martin
 
Liftoff is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. EDT; 1830 GMT) at the opening of a 15-minute launch window from pad 3-East on South Base.
"It's kind of like your kid going off to kindergarten and college for the first day at the same time," said Jeff Dierks, the program manager at satellite builder Ball Aerospace. "It's been something we've been working on for four years and it's coming to an end, but once they're launched we get to follow what they do for years and years. It's pretty cool."
Designed to see objects as small as 1-foot-wide (31 cm) from 383 miles (617 km) in space, the WorldView 3 spacecraft will be the latest in a series of commercial eyes in the sky operated by DigitalGlobe of Longmont, Colorado.
The market for imagery varies from the U.S. government to agriculture, oil and gas, scientific researchers and land developers.
"As they are getting the licenses to get (better and better) resolution, that's really getting into the realm of aerial imagery from airplanes," Dierks said.
But with the new resolution of WorldView 3 and the amount of imagery it can collect a day far outweighs imagery from planes.
"They view it as a large market to move in to."
The DigitalGlobe constellation:

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• Ikonos: 82 cm resolution
• QuickBird: 61 cm
• WorldView 1: 50 cm
• WorldView 2: 46 cm
• GeoEye 1: 41 cm
  

Credit: Ball Aerospace
 
WorldView 3's capacity is 263,000 square miles (680,000 km2) per day.
Built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., the 6,200-pound satellite stands 18.7 feet tall and 23 feet across with its power-generating solar panels deployed. WorldView 3 carries an Exelis-built 1.1 meter aperture telescope. The craft has a design life of 7 years and expected service life of 10-12 years.
"(Google Earth) is probably the use most people are familiar with. If you've looked up your house on Google Earth, the image taken from space on there was probably taken with one of the WorldView spacecraft," Dierks said.
"Every time I see DigitalGlobe (logo) on the news, it makes me feel proud," said Dierks, who also led earlier spacecraft developments for the company.

Credit: Ball Aerospace
 
The satellite's sensors are part of the first multi-payload, super-spectral, high-resolution spacecraft in the commercial field. It can image in black and white and color, plus short-wave infrared to see through smoke and haze for disaster response and has an atmospheric sounder for enhanced color calibration.
"Having that calibration helps them better, for example, ascertain crop health," Dierks said. "Is it really taking an image of the true color on the ground? Is that Ferrari we just took a picture of a true Ferrari Red or some other red?"
WorldView 3 collects 31 cm panchromatic resolution, 1.24 m multispectral, 3.7 m short-wave infrared (SWIR) and 30 m Cloud, Aerosol, Water Vapor, Ice, Snow (CAVIS).
Riding atop a 189-foot-tall Atlas 5 rocket, United Launch Alliance will deliver WorldView 3 into orbit under an arrangement with Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services. It is the 10th commercial Atlas 5 launch.
A single firing of the Centaur upper stage will be needed to heave the payload into its sun-synchronous polar orbit. Deployment occurs 19 minutes after liftoff.
The launch is the 630th for an Atlas vehicle, the 196th Atlas-Centaur, the 48th Atlas 5 rocket and the 24th to fly in the 401 configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solids and a single-engine Centaur. For United Launch Alliance, it is the company's 87th launch overall since 2006 and the 10th just this year.

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Forecast for the Aug. 13 WorldView-3 launch continues to show a 60% chance of favorable weather for the 11:30 a.m. PDT launch

https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/499006726021349376

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A3045/14 - THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES ARE REQUIRED DUE TO: ALTRV 2 ROPS AIROP DO-1404. THIS NOTAM ONLY AFFECTS TRAFFIC ON R576 AND R577. WESTBOUND TRAFFIC TO HAWAII FROM KZLA AIRSPACE ON ATS ROUTE R576 ESTIMATING DINTY BETWEEN 1735 AND 2010 SHOULD FILE MQO C1155 AUDIA DUETS R576 THEN FLIGHT PLAN ROUTE. EASTBOUND TRAFFIC TO KZLA AIRSPACE FROM HAWAII ON ATS ROUTE R577 ESTIMATING EBBER BETWEEN 1342 AND 1558 SHOULD FILE R577 ETECO FOOTS FICKY SXC THEN FLIGHT PLAN ROUTE. THE TEMPORARY ROUTES DESCRIBED ABOVE ARE FOR AIRCRAFT EQUIPPED WITH RNP-10 NAVIGATION SYSTEMS OR BETTER. ALL OTHERS SHOULD FILE A FLIGHT PLAN TO AVOID THE AIRSPACE NOTAMED FOR ALTITUDE RESERVATION (ALTRV) 2. ROPS AIROP DO-1404 BY AT LEAST 50NM. TIMES LISTED ABOVE ARE BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE OF TURBOJET AIRCRAFT ONLY AND SLOWER AIRCRAFT SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY. QUESTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR AT 510-745-3332 OR THE OAKLAND ARTCC OCEANIC SUPERVISOR AT 510-745-3342. SFC - UNL END PART 2 OF 2, DLY 1340-2010, 13 AUG 13:40 2014 UNTIL 18 AUG 20:10 2014. CREATED: 11 AUG 23:26 2014

 
NAVAREA XII 272/14
 EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
 CALIFORNIA.
 MISSILES.
 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 1530Z TO 1946Z DAILY
 13 THRU 18 AUG IN AREA BETWEEN
 34-41N 34-37N AND 120-35W 120-38W.
 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 182046Z AUG 2014.//
 Authority: COMCOGARD LOS ANGELES 101/14 AUG 14.
 Date: 
 Cancel: 18204600 Aug 14

NAVAREA XII 269/14
 EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC. 
 ROCKETS. 
 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 1800Z TO 1946Z DAILY 
 13 THRU 18 AUG IN AREA BOUND BY 
 09-27N 125-20W, 09-39N 126-22W, 
 13-11N 125-42W, 12-59N 124-39W. 
 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 182046Z AUG 14.//
 Authority: WESTERN RANGE OP W9521 302317Z JUL 14.
 Date: 
 Cancel: 18204600 Aug 14

!CARF 08/051 (KZLA A2033/14) ZLA AIRSPACE DCC 2ROPS AIROP DO-1404 AREA A STATIONARY ALTITUDE RESERVATION WITHIN AREA DEFINED AS 3440N12040W TO 3439N12030W TO 3226N12110W TO 3226N12119W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1408131815-1408131927

!CARF 08/050 (KZAK A3024/14) ZAK AIRSPACE DCC 2ROPS AIROP DO-1404 AREA B STATIONARY ALTITUDE RESERVATION WITHIN AREA DEFINED AS 0927N12520W TO 0939N12622W TO 1311N12542W TO 1259N12439W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1408131815-1408131927

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ULA ‏@ulalaunch  5m

The chance of favorable conditions remains 40%; concern is clouds below 2,000 feet.

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DigitalGlobe's WorldView-3 Imaging Satellite Pioneers Global Sensing
http://www.sensorsandsystems.com/article/features/34624-digitalglobe-s-worldview-3-imaging-satellite-pioneers-global-sensing.html

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• The 630th launch for Atlas program since 1957
• The 293rd Atlas launch from Vandenberg AFB since 1959
• The 42nd Atlas to use Space Launch Complex 3
• The 9th Atlas 5 launch from Vandenberg AFB since 2008
• The 29th mission for the Centaur upper stage
• The 196th use of Centaur by an Atlas rocket
• The 451st production RL10 engine to be launched
• The 54th flight of the RD-180 main engine
• The 48th launch of an Atlas 5 since 2002
• The 75th Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle flight
• The 10th commercial launch for Atlas 5
• The 87th United Launch Alliance flight overall
• The 40th Atlas 5 under United Launch Alliance
• The 32nd 400-series flight of the Atlas 5
• The 24th Atlas 5 to fly in the 401 configuration
• The 6th Atlas launch of 2014
  

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