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The IKONOS commercial remote sensing satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has achieved its ninth year of on-orbit service and continues to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth to commercial and government customers around the world.
Read MoreHow to measure the wind — Globalstar, Inc. [Nasdaq:GSAT], a major provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments and individuals, today announced that Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas), a
Read MoreRemote sensing solution provider DMCii's Chief Scientist, Dr. Steve Mackin, has pioneered a new approach for deriving quality control indicators from Disaster Monitoring Constellation data.
Read MoreNASA has circulated some amazing photos of the Arctic sea ice coverage that show its lowest extent for the year, and the second-lowest amount recorded since the dawn of the satellite era, according to observations from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Read MoreWith the GeoEye-1 satellite's successful launch on September 6th, GeoEye will be ready to start full commercial operations for GeoEye-1 imaging products a few months after launch. For the next 45- to 60-days, engineering and calibration tests will be completed.
Read MoreMission accomplished for ITT Corporation as they celebrated the successful launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite and its ITT-built imaging payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Once fully operational, GeoEye-1 will boast the highest resolution of any commercial satellite imaging system on the market.
Read MoreGeoEye, Inc. has reported the successful launch and deployment of GeoEye-1, the world's highest resolution, commercial Earth-imaging satellite. GeoEye's ground station in Norway relayed the downlink signal it received from GeoEye-1 confirming that the satellite successfully separated from the second stage of the launch vehicle and began automatically initializing its onboard systems.
Read MoreHurricane Ike was still a Category 4 storm when these photos were taken from the International Space Station's vantage point of 220 miles above the Earth.
Read MoreSpot Image Corp. has been named a Google Earth Enterprise Partner, and will leverage this new partnership with Google to deliver imagery through current and planned web-based solutions to its clients through Google Earth. What this translates out to mean is that Spot Image Corp. will develop ‘ready-to-use’ image data sets for Google Earth and Google Earth Enterprise users in addition to creating a variety of advanced new information services and solutions. Spot Image Corp. plans to tap into the Google Earth Enterprise architecture to integrate the rich information content of SPOT satellite imagery into maps (2D) and Globes (3D).
Read MoreBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun the integration of the completed imaging instrument for the next-generation WorldView-2 commercial imaging satellite being built for DigitalGlobe scheduled to be launched in the third quarter of 2009. WorldView-2 will expand DigitalGlobe’s collection capabilities by nearly one million square kilometers per day, enable intra-day revisits to a specific geographic area, and enhance DigitalGlobe’s ability to collect up-to-date imagery for customer needs.
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