DigitalGlobe has rolled out the first images from the WorldView1 satellite

Recall the launch just last month... well, today DigitalGlobe has rolled out the first images from the WorldView1 satellite.

WorldView-1’s first images include half-meter snapshots from:

Houston, Texas, USA acquired October 2, 2007
Yokohama, Japan acquired October 5, 2007
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia acquired October 5, 2007

Recall WorldView-1, built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation with the imaging sensor provided by ITT Corporation, is a high-capacity, panchromatic imaging system featuring half-meter resolution imagery. With an average revisit time of 1.7 days, WorldView-1 is capable of collecting up to 750,000 square kilometers (290,000 square miles) per day of half-meter imagery.

Images can be viewed at: http://www.digitalglobe.com/worldview-1_images.html