Boulder-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed environmental testing for the WorldView-2 remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe of Longmont and has begun post-environmental performance testing.
WorldView-2 is the third satellite Ball has built for DigitalGlobe’s constellation of commercial remote sensing satellites. The satellite is to launch Oct. 6 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Originally, due to an editing error, the headline mischaracterized the testing that Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp. has completed on the WorldView-2 remote sensing
satellite. The testing was designed to ensure that the satellite
would work in the environment of space.
