A vote of confidence from RapidEye was validated in a new contractual agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), in which MDA will be the sole supplier of direct downlink solutions for RapidEye's international ground station customers. MDA conducted the commissioning period on
both the space and ground segment in which
system performance and product quality have been thoroughly measured, analyzed and verified. As part of the agreement with MDA, RapidEye's international ground station customers will be provided with
ground systems capable of programming, receiving and processing imagery from RapidEye's constellation of five satellites.RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate their own satellite constellation.
Richat Structure - a circular formation - in the Sahara desert of Mauritania - acquired by MATI (RapidEye 2) on March 10 2009
Wolfgang Biedermann, CEO of RapidEye, commented, “The
expansion of RapidEye's range of services to include direct data downlink services will complement our core products and services business and will allow us to
serve even more customers with near real-time imaging requirements.”
David Hargreaves, one of
MDA's Vice Presidents in the Information Systems group, said: “The strategic cooperation
agreement established between MDA and RapidEye will enable our team to provide our
operational defense and intelligence customers with secure, near real-time direct access to the broad area surveillance capabilities of the RapidEye constellation.
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