After GeoEye-1, GeoEye-2

In celebration of this anniversary, GeoEye tasked the GeoEye-1 satellite to collect a half-metre resolution image of Madrid, Spain on 7^th September, of which a view of the Royal Palace illustrates this article. The full high-resolution image is featured on GeoEye's corporate home page.

With the launch of GeoEye-1, the company put into service the world's most advanced commercial imagery satellite, which is delivering the highest resolution, most accurate color satellite imagery available today.

Since its launch, GeoEye-1 has imaged every continent in the world and chronicled several noteworthy events this year, including President Obama's inauguration ceremony in Washington (DC, USA) in January. In April, GeoEye-1 photographed a North Korean missile facility just moments before the launch of a long-range missile. The GeoEye-1 satellite has collected approximately 54 million square kilometres of imagery and taken over 200,000 images since its launch.

GeoEye began delivering GeoEye-1 imagery to Google Inc. for both the Google Earth and Google Maps services in March. A sample of images from GeoEye-1, includes the Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt); Borneo (Indonesia); Cabo Polonio (Uruguay); and British Columbia (Canada).