"Our business continues to undergo rapid growth as evidenced by recent contract awards," said Jill Smith, DigitalGlobe chairman and CEO. "Coming on the heels of this important win, this is the absolute right time for development of our third next-generation satellite, which will satisfy growing demand from our government and commercial customers alike. WorldView-3 will greatly increase our already industry-leading collection capacity while enabling us to meet the increased market demand for advanced geospatial data."
Ball and ITT have previously built the trio of DigitalGlobe satellites currently on orbit including QuickBird launched in 2001, WorldView-1 launched in 2007, and WorldView-2 launched in 2009.
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