Vista - Microsoft: Yes, We Launched a Bing Rocket.

And indeed, Microsoft has launched a Bing rocket. Not the Redmond company itself, but rather DigitalGlobe, one of the software giant’s partners and supplier of satellite imagery for Bing Maps. The past week, DigitalGlobe’s Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California taking the WorldView-2 satellite into orbit. Following the first couple of days when WorldView-2 had to undergo calibration and checkout, DigitalGlobe started capturing imagery, which will end up integrated into the Redmond company’s mapping, search and location platform.