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As lots of other blogs are reporting, satellite imagery provider Digital Globe, yesterday launched WorldView I - company’s latest high resolution earth observing satellite which joins the likes of QuickBird in a 500km-ish orbit, with the mission of providing pictures of your house for Google. Those of you blessed with the ability to play Advances System Format videos can watch a video of the launch here. If the video doesn’t play, dowload VLC. On Ubuntu/Debain do:

sudo aptitude install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

and sit back and enjoy.

Rumors were rife amongst delegates at this summer’s StateoftheMap conference about Google’s satellite launching ambitions. Maybe its Google’s proximity to and friendlyness with NASA or maybe their sponsorship the X-Prize to land a vehicle on the Moon that makes the idea of Google-in-space seem not that far fetched at all.