Longmont-based DigitalGlobe's latest satellite, launched two weeks ago, has taken its first images from space.

The company released three photos Tuesday taken by WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe's next-generation imaging satellite. The pictures were taken of three Texas landmarks -- the Dallas Love Airport, the AT&T Center in San Antonio and the San Antonio Conference Center, which is hosting the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's GEOINT conference this week.

The $450 million satellite, which can capture up to three times the Earth's landmass on a yearly basis, was launched Oct. 8 from a Boeing Delta II rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

During the coming weeks, WorldView-2 will be going through a "callibration and check out" period. DigitalGlobe expects the satellite to be delivering commercially available imagery products and services approximately 90 days from the launch date.

Some of DigitalGlobe's clients include the U.S. government, Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth.

WorldView-2 is DigitalGlobe's third satellite in orbit, joining QuickBird and WorldView-1, which launched in October 2001 and September 2007, respectively. WorldView-2's launch comes just one year before QuickBird's operating life is slated to end.

Boulder-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. spent the past three years designing and constructing the satellite.

Shares of DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) rose 96 cents, or 4 percent, to $25.00 on Tuesday.