WorldView-4
Sign in to saveAlso known as GeoEye-2, GE2, GE02, WV04, WV4, WV 04, WV 4
WorldView-4, previously known as GeoEye-2, was a third generation commercial Earth observation satellite launched on 11 November 2016, at 18:30:33 UTC. The spacecraft was operated by DigitalGlobe. With a maximum resolution of , WorldView-4 provided similar imagery as WorldView-3, the highest resolution commercially available at the time of its launch.
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- Mass
- 2600
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2016-11-11
- time of object orbit decay
- 2021-11-30
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WorldView-4, previously known as GeoEye-2, was a third generation commercial Earth observation satellite launched on 11 November 2016, at 18:30:33 UTC. The spacecraft was operated by DigitalGlobe. With a maximum resolution of , WorldView-4 provided similar imagery as WorldView-3, the highest resolution commercially available at the time of its launch.
The spacecraft suffered a failure in one of its control moment gyroscopes in January 2019, and operations were unable to be recovered. It reentered over New Zealand on 30 November 2021.