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The Quickbird satellite was successfully launched on the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle on October 18, 2001.

The Quickbird satellite orbits the Earth every 93.5 minutes at an altitude of approximately 450 kilometers. Quickbird is the highest resolution commercial satellite imagery available.

The QuickBird satellite collects both multi-spectral and panchromatic imagery concurrently, and 70cm Pan-sharpened composite products in natural or infrared colours are offered. Both strip mode and area mode imaging are supported. Strips up to 10 scenes in length (165 km) can be collected in a single pass. Areas up to 2x2 scenes can be collected in a single pass.

	International Archive	New Collect
0.6m Panchromatic	$16 / km²	$21 / km²
2.8m Multispectral	$16 / km²	$21 / km²
*0.6m Colour (3 Band)*	$17 / km²	$22 / km²
0.6m Colour (4 Band)	$17 / km²	$22 / km²
0.6m Bundle (Pan + XS)	$20 / km²	$25 / km²
Minimum Order Area	25 km²	64 km²

N.B. Prices as of March 2008

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Data Specifications

Spectral Band	Spectral Range
Panchromatic band	0.45 - 0.90µm
Band 1 (blue)	0.45 - 0.52µm
Band 2 (green)	0.52 - 0.60µm
Band 3 (red)	0.63 - 0.69µm
Band 4 (near infrared)	0.76 - 0.90µm

*Vertical Accuracy*	14-meter RMSE (23-meter CE90%)
*Altitude*	450 kilometres
*Inclination*	97.2
*Descending nodal crossing time*	10:30 am
*Orbit type*	Sun-synchronous

View Angle	Pixel Size (Pan)	Pixel Size (XS)
Nadir	0.61 m	2.44 m
25° Off -Nadir	0.72 m	2.88 m

(All pixels are resampled to 0.60m or 0.70m before delivery)
A range of acceptable viewing angles can be specified by the customer before image acquisition.
Quickbird data is provided on CD-ROM in GeoTIF Format as either 8-bit or 16-bit per waveband.

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