DigitalGlobe was an American commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft.

[3] Its founder was Dr Walter Scott, who was joined by co-founder and CEO Doug Gerull in late 1992.

In 1993, the company received the first high resolution commercial remote sensing satellite license issued under the 1992 Act.

[4] The company was initially funded with private financing from Silicon Valley sources and interested corporations in North America, Europe and Japan.

[3] In 1995, the company became EarthWatch Incorporated, merging WorldView with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s commercial remote sensing operations.

[12] As of May 2017, DigitalGlobe's image catalog contains 100 petabytes worth of data, and grows by 100 terabytes each day.

[2] On 5 October 2017, DigitalGlobe and MDA Holdings Company merged to become Maxar Technologies[14] On 30 December 2019, the company announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to sell MDA to a consortium of financial sponsors led by Northern Private Capital for CAD$1 billion (US$765 million).

Although the launch was successful, the satellite lost communications after only four days in orbit due to power system failure.

[21] On 31 March 2015, IKONOS was officially decommissioned after more than doubling her mission design life, spending 5,680 days in orbit and making 83,131 trips around the Earth.

DigitalGlobe partnered with Boeing commercial launch services to deliver WorldView-2 into a Sun-synchronous orbit.

[29] However, DigitalGlobe obtained permission, in June 2014, from the United States Department of Commerce, to allow the company to more widely exploit its commercial satellite imagery.

[32] Originally named GeoEye-2, the spacecraft was designed and built by Lockheed Martin,[33] while the camera payload was provided by ITT Corporation.

In January 2019, the company reported the failure of a control moment gyroscope on the satellite, rendering it inoperable.

WorldView Legion comprises six satellites planned to launch between 2024 and 2026[40] into a mix of Sun-synchronous and mid-latitude orbits.

[44] DigitalGlobe's customers range from urban planners, to conservation organizations like the Amazon Conservation Team,[45] to the U.S. federal agencies, including NASA[7] and the United States Department of Defense's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).