Next-Generation Satellite Confirmed for Launch19/08/2008 |
| The Air Force 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base has approved the September 4 launch date for GeoEye-1 clearing the way to complete final preparations for launch. The previously reported retest of a booster range safety antenna was successfully completed on 14th August. The next step in the pre-launch sequence is the mating of the GeoEye-1 spacecraft with the Delta II booster, which will occur early next week. |
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Bill Schuster, GeoEye's chief operating officer said, "We are good to go for launch on 4th September. We look forward to soon providing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and our other customers around the globe with the highest resolution and best quality commercial satellite imagery available on the market."
GeoEye-1 will have the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system -- 0.41-metres or 16 inches for panchromatic (black and white) imagery and multispectral (color) imagery at 1.65-metre resolution. However, due to U.S. Government licensing restrictions, commercial customers will have access to imagery at half-metre ground resolution. The satellite is designed to offer three-metre accuracy, which means that end users can map natural and man-made features to within three meters of their actual locations on the surface of the Earth without ground control points. GeoEye-1 was financed in part by GeoEye's approximate USD500 million contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Read more about: geospatial imagery satellite imagery satellite Website: http://launch.geoeye.com/ Supplier: 0 More news from this supplier: SLA for Increased Satellite Imagery Purchases GeoEye Appointment GeoEye-1 Satellite Launch Successful GeoEye-1 Satellite Launch AAMHatch GeoEye's 'International Best Performer' Final Launch Preparations GeoEye-1 Primary Mirror Blank Assembly for GeoEye-2 GeoEye Receives $22 Million Award GeoEye Announces Earth Imaging Satellite Launch New GeoEye Director TatukGIS Developer Kernel 10 Upgrade Netcad Asia Convention Community Heritage Project Using GIS Visualisation Teaching Award for Russell G. Congalton ION Autonomous Snowplough Competition Winners GeoCore 2012 with Lidar API First Real-time Seafloor Earthquake Observatory CyberCity 3D Launches 3D Solar Buildings Second UltraCamX for Valley Air Photos Capacity-building to Develop Afghan Mining 
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