#deimos 2

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PyeongChang Olympic venues spotted from orbit.

Friday, February 9 marks the start of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games held this year in the PyeongChang region of South Korea.

Deimos 2 recently overflew the region and captured the main Olympic venues from orbit. The 35,000 seat pentagonal Olympic stadium, dominates the first image, followed by the Olympic Village where the 2,920 athletes participating reside.

Venues for hockey, curling, ice skating and speed skating are located in the Gangneung Olympic Park, seen in the third image.

The Ski Jumping Center hosts downhill skiing events while Bokwang Phoenix Park hosts freestyle skiing and snowboarding. The final image shows the 2,018 meter-long Olympic Sliding Center track where the luge, bobsleigh and skeleton events are held.

P/C: Deimos Imaging.

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Deimos-2 captured Expo 2017 under construction in Astana, Kazakhstan. 110 countries participated in the world’s fair, the first in central Asia. With a theme of ‘Future Energy’, the 62-acre fairgrounds welcomed 3,997,545 visitors during its three-month run from June 10 - September 10. At the center of the exposition grounds is the 330-foot sphere of Nur Alem, the central structure of the exposition. Four main structures housing 110 international pavilions encircle the sphere like a wheel, and the new Mega Silkway shopping and entertainment center branches out on the west.

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Taking yet another stunning image of a rocket on its launch pad, the Deimos-2 satellite flew over Kennedy Space Center April 29 and captured the NROL-76 Falcon 9 atop LC-39A. The Earth imaging satellite also captured the SES-9 Falcon 9 in February 2016 on SLC-40 and its accompanying droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. With a new fleet of commercial Earth Observation satellites in orbit, photography of launch sites has increased in recent years. WorldView-2 saw its companion satellite, WorldView-4, launch into space mid-flight last November, and Deimos-2 saw the CRS-10 Falcon 9 atop LC-39A in February.

P/C: Deimos Imaging.