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International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions

ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.

Showcasing success stories from ESA's Third Party Missions

ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world.

Remote sensing scientists raise alarm for African savannah

Researchers have used high resolution WorldView-3 imagery to map vegetation cover in the Greater Maasai Mara savannah, a global hotspot for biodiversity in Kenya.

An overview of the very high-resolution WorldView constellation

Learn about the WorldView constellation, part of ESA’s Third Party Missions programme, in this infographic.

A summary of ESA Third Party Mission collections

A new summary is available, showcasing the ESA archives for Third Party Mission collections.

About WorldView-1

WorldView-1 is an environment-monitoring satellite from Maxar of the United States which launched on 18 September 2007 and remains operational.

It became the world's first 50 cm resolution commercial imaging satellite.

*Mission Parameters*
Orbit Altitude	496 km
Orbit Type	Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period	94.6 minutes
Orbit Inclination	97.2°
Repeat Cycle	14 days
Equator Crossing Time	10:30 am descending node
Revisit Time	1.7 days at 1-metre GSD resolution

WorldView-1 Objectives

WorldView-1 freed capacity on Maxar's QuickBird satellite to meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral geospatial imagery.

WorldView-1 Instruments

WorldView-60 camera (WV60)

This is a panchromatic-only instrument which produces black and white imagery.

*WorldView-60 camera Parameters*
Instrument Optics	- Use of QuickBird optical bench design - Telescope of 60 cm aperture
Spectral Range (panchromatic imagery only)	0.45 - 0.90 µm
Spatial Resolution (GSD)	- 50 cm panchromatic at nadir - 55 cm out to 20º off-nadir
Swath Width	17.6 km at nadir
Revisit Frequency	- 1.7 days at 1 m GSD or less - 5.9 days at 20º off-nadir or less (0.51 m GSD)
Detectors	- Silicon CCD array (8 µm pixel size) with a row of > 35,000 detectors - The array includes 64 stages of TDI (35,000 columns and 64 rows)
TDI (Time Delay Integration)	6 selectable levels from 8 to 64
Data Quantization	11 bit
Geolocation accuracy of imagery after processing	- 5.8 to 7.6 m without GPCs - 2 m with GPCs
Instrument Mass, Power	380 kg, 250 W

WorldView-1 Data

DATA DESCRIPTION

These products are available as part of the Maxar Standard Satellite Imagery products and are distributed by European Space Imaging (EUSI).

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project.

WorldView-1 Full Archive & Tasking

Moreover, ESA offers to registered users access through the Online Dissemination server to the following data collection:

WorldView ESA archive

WorldView-1 INSTRUMENTS

WorldView-1 DATA