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Even before a U.S. high-resolution commercial imaging satellite was launched on a START-1 rocket from Svobodny, Russia, customers used the Internet to place orders for imagery. EarlyBird 1 will provide 3-meter resolution panchromatic and 15-meter multispectral imagery of the Earth's topography. The satellite is a building block in the Digital Globe navigator, an online archive of the Earth.