New commercial eye in the sky launching Wednesday

The world's most capable commercial Earth-imaging satellite will be launched into space Wednesday atop an Atlas rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Liftoff is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. EDT; 1830 GMT) at the opening of a 15-minute launch window from pad 3-East on South Base. "It's kind of like your kid going off to kindergarten and college for the first day at the same time," said Jeff Dierks, the program manager at satellite builder Ball Aerospace.Base in California. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 11)