HTTP:: Microsoft Yes We Launched a Bing Rocket
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And indeed, Microsoft has launched a Bing rocket. Not the Redmond company itself, but rather DigitalGlobe, one of the software giant’s partners and supplier of satellite imagery for Bing Maps. The past week, DigitalGlobe’s Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California taking the WorldView-2 satellite into orbit. Following the first couple of days when WorldView-2 had to undergo calibration and checkout, DigitalGlobe started capturing imagery, which will end up integrated into the Redmond company’s mapping, search and location platform. “The rocket was just a propulsion engine to begin the orbit of Digital Globe’s new WorldView-2 satellite which will capture imagery of the Earth and eventually be added into Bing Maps. The process is actually quite complex and now that our Bing logo is floating in the ocean evangelizing to scuba divers, let the imagery processing begin! (Perhaps we should roll out some bathometric data on Bing M!
aps to coordinate with the rocket in he water)? In any case, the first photo isn’t actually taken for 48 hours. The satellite will have orbited the Earth twice before they crank the lens to face the sun (to obtain a perfect white color synchronization). Then, after the first 48 hours Bing! the first photo is taken,†reveale...
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