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WorldView Legion Satellite

Maxar’s WorldView Legion constellation is the next generation of 8-band, 30-cm satellites.

WorldView Legion Satellite Imagery Samples

WorldView Legion 30-cm Natural Color - San Francisco, California, USA; July 16, 2024
WorldView Legion 30-cm Natural Color - San Francisco, California, USA; July 16, 2024
WorldView Legion 30-cm Natural Color - Sacramento, California, USA; July 16, 2024
WorldView Legion 30-cm Natural Color - Sacramento, California, USA; July 16, 2024

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The WorldView Legion Advantage

Crisp 34-cm Resolution
WorldView Legion’s 34-cm resolution imagery provides incredibly detailed views of Earth, enabling the identification of small objects and subtle changes in both urban and natural environments.

8-Band Multispectral Imagery
The Legion constellation’s diverse spectral bands allow for advanced applications like bathymetry, vegetation analysis and wildfire mapping.

Frequent Revisits
WorldView Legion’s multi-sensor constellation offers daily revisits, enabling large-scale mapping, change detection, and analysis across vast geographic areas.

Additional Mid-Latitude Coverage
Four Legion satellites will circle the planet in persistent mid-latitude orbits. This increased capacity and revisit rate for the most populated areas of the world creates a robust archive and advanced monitoring capabilities.
Overview & HistoryWorldView Legion SpecificationsPricing
WorldView Legion is a constellation of six, 34-centimeter (cm) high-resolution Earth observation satellites owned and operated by Maxar Technologies. The first two Legion satellites successfully launched on May 2, 2024 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. On August 15, 2024, Legion 3 and Legion 4 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The remaining two satellites are planned to launch in the near future.

WorldView Legion satellites offer 34-cm resolution panchromatic imagery, making them among the highest resolution commercial satellites available. They also capture multispectral imagery at 1.36-meter (m) resolution with eight bands: coastal, blue, green, yellow, red, red edge 1, red edge 2, and near-infrared (NIR). This spectral diversity enables enhanced analysis capabilities for a wide variety of applications including vegetation analysis and monitoring, mineral and hydrocarbon exploration, forestry studies, and land use-land cover classifications.

Once fully deployed, the WorldView Legion constellation will be positioned in various orbits to provide frequent revisits, with up to 15 revisits per day in some areas. Legion 1 and Legion 2 are currently in sun-synchronous orbits; and were joined by Legion 3 and Legion 4 orbiting at the Earth’s mid-latitudes (Legion 5 and Legion 6 will also be in mid-latitude orbits). At a 45-degree inclination, mid-latitude orbit, Legion 3 and Legion 4 have greater daytime coverage and more revisits in high-interest areas. With 90% of the world’s population living between 45° North and 45° South latitudes, the WorldView Legion constellation has shorter revisit times to these regions, while still covering the far northern and southern latitudes with two sun-synchronous satellites.

The WorldView Legion constellation allows Apollo Mapping to offer increased imaging capacity and faster delivery times to its customers across various sectors, including defense, mining, oil and gas, engineering, education and research, and humanitarian relief.

Launch Details
  • Launch Date: May 2, 2024, 18:36 UTC (LG01 & LG02); August 15, 2024, 01:00 UTC (LG03 & LG04)
  • Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
  • Site: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA (LG01 & LG02); Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA (LG03 & LG04)
  • Expected Mission Life: at least 10 years
WorldView Legion Components
  • Dimensions: ~ 3 m tall x ~ 2 m x ~ 2 m (not including solar array)
  • Satellite Mass: ~ 630 kilograms
Orbit Characteristics
  • Sun-Synchronous Orbit Direction: north to south (across the lit side of Earth)
  • Sun-Synchronous Equatorial Crossing Time: 10:30 AM local time (approximate; across lit side of Earth)
  • Mid-Latitude Orbit (MIO) Characteristics: 45-degree inclination; 4 equally spaced orbital planes (when all 4 MIO Legions launched)
  • Mid-Latitude Orbit Revisit Times: distributed throughout daytime hours
Imaging System
  • Spectral Bands:
    • Panchromatic
    • 8-band multispectral (coastal, blue, green, yellow, red, red edge 1, red edge 2 and NIR)
  • Sensor Resolution:
    • At nadir – 34-cm panchromatic and 1.36-m multispectral
  • Spectral Band Wavelength Range: (in nm)
    • Panchromatic – 450 to 800
    • Coastal Blue – 400 to 450
    • Blue – 450 to 510
    • Green – 510 to 580
    • Yellow – 585 to 625
    • Red – 630 to 690
    • Red Edge 1 – 695 to 715
    • Red Edge 2 – 730 to 750
    • NIR – 770 to 895
Collection Capabilities
  • Footprint Width: 10 km (at nadir)
  • Daily Collection Capacity: 1,000,000 sq km per satellite
  • Georeferenced Horizontal Accuracy: < 5-m CE90 without ground control points, < 1.5-m RMSE (global average, dependent on terrain)

Below is the least expensive WorldView Legion data offered. Prices increase for higher resolution, new collections, additional spectral bands and data processing. Note that academic and volume discounts are available.

  • Data Source: archive (greater than 90 days old)
  • Minimum Order Size: 25 sq km (per area & date)
  • Product Type: 30-cm georeferenced + natural color or 4-band (50-cm is offered at a discounted rate)
  • Price Per Sq Km: $22.50 (more detailed pricing can be found here)

For an exact quote, please contact our Sales Team at sales@apollomapping.com.

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