Common use of System Overview Clause in Contracts

System Overview. Ball Aerospace & Technology Corporation (BATC) is providing the integrated WorldView-3 imaging satellite to DigitalGlobe, Inc. As the Space Segment Integrator (SSI), BATC is manufacturing a Spacecraft Bus that can accommodate the panchromatic + multi-spectral WorldView-3 Instrument. This will be the same Bus design as used for predecessor WorldView Satellites. The Instrument is being supplied by ITT Industries Space Systems Division (ITT) to DigitalGlobe, with miscellaneous support units / functions provided by BATC. All ITT equipment will be provided as Customer Furnished Equipment (CFE) to BATC for Satellite integration. As the SSI, BATC will then perform Satellite level testing, prepare the Satellite for launch, and support on-orbit checkout of the Satellite. The Satellite will be in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude between 450 and 830 km with a descending equator crossing time between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM. [**Redacted**] Image data is recorded by the Spacecraft Bus and is normally downlinked to DigitalGlobe ground stations. However, direct downlink to user sites may also be performed in certain circumstances. Direct downlink is via the normal wideband downlink. A key feature of the WordView-3 Satellite is Direct Tasking, where imaging and downlink parameters are directly uplinked from a customer’s ground station to the satellite, and image data is directly downlinked to a customer’s ground station, on the same and/or successive passes. Direct Tasking supports an expanded customer base and fulfills these customers’ desires to compress the overall planning-tasking-collection-downlink timeline and to not expose their task list to outside parties (including DigitalGlobe) prior to image collection. Full command authority is maintained by DigitalGlobe, with key commands needed to initiate the image and downlink operations uploaded from DigitalGlobe ground stations.