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SpaceX Thursday successfully launched 2 Maxar satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base successful California. The satellites pictured are nan first successful nan Maxar 500 series, made successful Palo Alto, Calif. Photo courtesy of Maxar
May 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched nan Maxar 1 ngo carrying 2 next-generation WorldView Legion satellites Thursday successful California.
The ngo launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base astatine astir 11:36 a.m. section time. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was used.
The 20th motorboat and landing of nan Falcon 9 first shape was completed by 11:45 a.m. Pacific Time.
The 2 satellites launched successful nan Maxar 1 mission will augment and astatine immoderate constituent switch Maxar Intelligence's 4 satellites that stitchery information and photos of Earth's surface.
There are six planned WorldView Legion satellites. Once they are each launched, Maxar Intelligence's capacity for collecting 30 cm-class and multispectral imagery will triple.
The WorldView Legion $700 cardinal satellites are next-gen high-performance satellites that let Maxar to supply imagery and information to intelligence, defense and commercialized customers.
They utilize cameras built by Ratheon to supply grounds panchromatic resolutions of up to 0.29 meters and are capable to photograph nan aforesaid locations 40 times per day.
"WorldView Legion will widen nan value and capacity of our industry-leading constellation, redefining Earth study constellation capacity and providing customers pinch unprecedented entree to timely, actionable insights that thief thrust ngo success," said Maxar Intelligence CEO Dan Smoot successful a statement.
The institution said these Maxar Space Systems-built satellites are nan first successful nan Maxar 500 series, a mid-size level built successful Palo Alto and San Jose, Calif.
Maxar Space Systems CEO Chris Johnson said successful a statement, "WorldView Legion and nan Maxar 500 bid level is nan culmination of decades of acquisition in building satellites for customer missions. We are excited to scope this important programme milestone and look guardant to continued business connected nan program."
The satellites will dramatically summation nan capacity to revisit quickly changing areas connected Earth up to 15 times per day.
