Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation is a leading supplier of aerospace hardware. They specialize in the design and development of precision imaging and attitude control. Ball Aerospace and DigitalGlobe have worked together since the mid-1990s, and Ball has been a key partner in meeting the growing demand for Earth imaging and enhancing the geospatial information market. With the success of QuickBird, launched in 2001, images as small as 2 feet could be identified. For this reason, the two companies combined their technologies and began working towards higher resolution capabilities in aerospace. This is how WorldView 1 and WorldView 2 were designed and built. They were launched in 2007 and 2009 respectively and are currently in low Earth orbit. Once again DigitalGlobe will be the customer of a further WorldView (3), which was awarded to Ball Aerospace and ITT in August 2010 and the expectations of the satellite are much greater than the two previous WorldView spacecraft (De Selding, 2010) .Ball is currently in the production phase of WorldView 3, which is expected to launch in 2014-2015. Once completed, it will have the highest resolution camera on a remote sensing satellite in the commercial sector. WorldView 3 is expected to provide DigitalGlobe with high-resolution imagery much more quickly than WorldView 1 or 2. This can largely be attributed to emerging technology and modifications made to the previous two WorldView satellite designs. With minimal design changes, WorldView 3 can provide imagery to a variety of government and commercial customers to help them with tasks such as: national defense, land mapping and natural surveying. After the launch of WorldView 1 in 2007,...... middle of paper ......and images and also national defense purposes. The impact of all three WorldView satellites has been phenomenal for satellite technologies around the world. Aerial Earth Views have gone to great lengths to provide customers with fast and clear images. WorldView 1 and 2 succeeded in providing commercial enterprises and government with new technology capable of capturing images very close to the ground and in high resolution. The demand for high resolution images is so great; DigitalGlobe is already in preliminary discussions about adding a fourth satellite (WorldView 4) to its constellation. The remote sensing spacecraft industry will continue to be an emerging technology for years to come. I dare say that the aerospace industry in general could also be seen as an emerging technology as competition in the sector continues to grow.