One Year In Space31/08/2009 |
| One year ago this week, a Dnepr-1 rocket was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying all five of RapidEye's satellites. It was an all-or-nothing mission for the organisation that started ten years earlier in Munich (Germany). The six months immediately following the launch were full of rigorous exercises for the five satellites as MDA, the company's general contractor, in cooperation with RapidEye's Operations and Engineering team performed post-launch testing and calibration activities. |
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This month also marks six months of commercial operations for the satellite constellation of five identical satellites equally spaced in the same orbital plane 630 kilometres above Earth, it quickly covers large areas at high resolution. With its ability to revisit any point on Earth every day, therefore being able to return when a cloud-free image is possible, RapidEye can provide the most up-to-date, multi-spectral images of large areas and offer repeat coverages of large areas several times a year.
A five-metre resolution product in five spectral bands can be delivered by RapidEye, giving companies an opportunity to frequently monitor large areas. When there is activity or change in their area, then they can have a closer look if necessary.
Since launch, RapidEye has become more efficient. Plans are taking shape to release an eShop (The RapidEye Geodata Kiosk), to expand the distribution network, to develop new products and services, and to add an additional 30 team members to their payroll. 
Read more about: satellite Website: http://www.rapideye.de/home/system/launch-2008/ Supplier: RapidEye AG More news from this supplier: China Fully Covered Images of Devastated Areas Show Dimensions RapidEye Provide Forest Imagery to USGS RapidEye Images Agricultural Areas Imaging Of Canadian Growing Season in 2009 RapidEye Partners With Lotus Repetitive Coverage in Brazil AAMHatch Distributor for RapidEye Improving French Precision Farming 'Sample the World' High-precision Measuring Stations GeoIQ to Distribute Definiens North Country Surveyors Warm-up to RTK Interactive Maps with BroadbandStat Snowdonian Mountain Resurvey Could Rewrite Map First ALTM Pegasus for Blom CGR Garmin Licenses 3D Terrain Models GAF 25th Anniversary China Fully Covered Lockheed Martin to Build GeoEye-2 
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