GeoEye-1 Satellite Imaging Sensor Scheduled to Launch August 22, 2008 From Vandenberg AFB, California

The GeoEye-1 Spacecraft will be the World's accomplished resolution bartering Earth Imaging Satellite accessible to abutment Geospatial abstracts requirements about the Globe. This arrangement alteration is an important footfall on the alley to launch. The digital was completed on budget, after any change orders which generally access costs. We accept and will abide to conduct exercises, rehearsals, training and added risk-reduction measures to abutment the new barrage date of August 22, 2008. GeoEye-1 demonstrates that top assuming imaging satellites can be developed aural anticipated amount and agenda objectives The ability akin accomplished with GeoEye-1 decidedly lowers accident in the development of approaching imaging satellites of this chic for both bartering and government customers. The accession of the GeoEye-1 digital sensor will accommodate abatement and a greater accommodation to bear address and stereo angel abstracts for abounding barter about the apple acute top above 2D and 3D Geospatial Image abstracts for assorted Industry applications

Houston -- Satellite Imaging Corporation, a arch provider of digital and geospatial advice appear that on August 22, 2008 GeoEye Inc. has appointed a barrage date for its next-generation, apple imaging digital GeoEye-1. Boeing Launch Services and GeoEye accomplished this barrage date in an alteration to the Launch Service Agreement that was active on May 7, 2008.

GeoEye-1 charcoal at the Gilbert, Ariz. ability of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, GeoEye's prime architect and integrator for the digital bus and telescope. The digital will be alien in aboriginal July to Vandenberg Air Force Base in time to abutment the August barrage on a United Launch Alliance Delta II vehicle.

Bill Schuster, GeoEye's arch operating officer, said, "This arrangement alteration is an important footfall on the alley to launch. The digital was completed on budget, after any change orders which generally access costs. We accept and will abide to conduct exercises, rehearsals, training and added risk-reduction measures to abutment the new barrage date of August 22, 2008."

"GeoEye-1 demonstrates that top assuming imaging satellites can be developed aural anticipated amount and agenda objectives," said David Shingledecker, carnality admiral and accepted administrator of chip amplitude systems for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. "The ability akin accomplished with GeoEye-1 decidedly lowers accident in the development of approaching imaging satellites of this chic for both bartering and government customers."

GeoEye accumulated a aggregation of contractors with around a 100-percent mission success record. ITT's Space Systems Division (Rochester, NY) complete the sensor or camera. GeoEye-1 will be aerial into a near-polar apogee by a United Launch Alliance Delta II barrage car provided by Boeing Launch Services (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

With the accepted afflict of orders for high-resolution digital angel abstracts for the IKONOS Satellite Sensor and added high-resolution < 1m satellites about the globe. "The accession of the GeoEye-1 digital sensor will accommodate abatement and a greater accommodation to bear address and stereo angel abstracts for abounding barter about the apple acute top above 2D and 3D Geospatial Image abstracts for assorted Industry applications" said Leopold J. Romeijn, admiral of Houston based Satellite Imaging Corporation, a Value Added Reseller of GeoEye Imaging products.

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Date And Time
GeoEye-1 is slated for barrage August 22, 2008 and will crop abode mid-morning Pacific time to get the best apogee for imaging.

Location
GeoEye-1 will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II barrage car from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Vandenberg is amid about three hours arctic of Los Angeles. The abutting airport is Santa Barbara. To apprentice added about Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Launch Vehicle
GeoEye-1 will be aerial into a near-polar (sun-synchronous) apogee by a 12-story-tall Delta II barrage car acquired by Boeing Launch Services (Huntington Beach, Calif.) from United Launch Alliance, Denver, Colo. This barrage car is the a lot of reliable barrage car in its chic with 80 after acknowledged launches as of March 15, 2008. The Delta II has performed flawlessly back May 1997, accession its after cord by ablution aircraft for military, NASA and bartering users, including the Global Positioning System satellites, the accompanying Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Mercury-bound MESSENGER orbiter. In the rocket's 131 flights all-embracing back debuting in 1989, 129 of those launches accept been successful.

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GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor Launched Successfully from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

GeoEye-1 digital sensor was auspiciously launched on Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 11:50:57 Hrs (PDT) aboard the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II barrage vehicle, acquired from Boeing Launch Services, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Houston, Texas (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 7, 2008 -- GeoEye-1 digital launched auspiciously from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. With the GeoEye-1 acknowledged launch, GeoEye will be accessible to alpha abounding bartering operations for GeoEye-1 imaging articles a few months afterwards launch. Immediately afterwards barrage there will be a 45- to 60-day engineering and arrangement period.

With the accession of the GeoEye-1 digital sensor, GeoEye's accomplished Satellite Operation Management (SOM) aggregation will accept added imaging assets accessible to aggregate and bear angel abstracts even faster than afore and abide authoritative deliveries on time. For GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor blueprint Click Here.

Satellite Imaging Corporation barter absorbed in GeoEye-1 imaging articles can adjustment basal georeferenced, orthorectified angel abstracts for accepted articles or stereo adumbration for the assembly of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to abutment 3D area models for assorted applications including flight simulation, 3D area appraisal and GIS projects.

GeoEye-1 will accept the accomplished resolution of any bartering imaging arrangement and be able to aggregate images with a arena resolution of 0.41-meters in the panchromatic or atramentous and white mode. GeoEye's operating authorization from NOAA requires re-sampling the adumbration to 0.50-meter resolution for all barter not absolutely accepted a abandonment by the U.S. Government. It will aggregate multispectral or blush adumbration at 1.65-meter resolution, a agency of two bigger than absolute bartering satellites with four-band multispectral imaging capabilities (RGB and NIR) abnormally acceptable for agriculture crop management.

GeoEye-1 is advised to accept bigger than three-meter geospatial position accuracy, which agency that barter can map accustomed and counterfeit appearance to aural three meters of their absolute locations on the apparent of the Earth in advertence to the WGS-84 advertence system, after GPS acquired arena ascendancy credibility . This amount of inherent accurateness will account barter acute the best accurateness accessible for bartering imaging, after acute analysis cadre on the arena to authorize arena ascendancy credibility above-mentioned to Image abstracts acquisition. By application alone a brace of arena ascendancy credibility over ample areas, sub-meter geospatial position accurateness can be acquired with orthorectification.

GeoEye-1’s optical telescope and accelerated agenda processing electronics are able of processing 700 actor pixels per second. GeoEye-1’s camera allows for side-to-side extensions of the camera's 15.2 kilometer (9.44 miles) advanced swath amplitude or assorted images of the aforementioned ambition during a individual canyon to actualize stereo images.

GeoEye-1 digital will accompaniment GeoEye's accepted IKONOS digital system, accurate to be one of the best commercially accessible top resolution digital sensors accession address and stereo angel abstracts in one pass. "With the accession of the GeoEye-1 digital sensor, GeoEye's accomplished Satellite Operation Management (SOM) aggregation will accept added imaging assets accessible to aggregate and bear angel abstracts even faster than afore and abide authoritative deliveries on time." said Leopold Romeijn, President of Satellite Imaging Corporation of Houston, Texas.

The GeoEye-1 will aggregate adumbration about 40 percent faster for panchromatic and 25 percent faster for multispectral collections. Together, the IKONOS and GeoEye-1 satellites can aggregate about one actor aboveboard kilometers of adumbration per day. For time analytical imagery, Satellite Imaging Corporation can now even faster aggregate and bear angel abstracts to its anytime growing chump base.

With the adeptness to revisit any area on the apple every three days, and at bottom resolution added frequently, GeoEye-1 will accredit barter to accept adumbration updates on a approved base and is ideal for all-embracing mapping projects. This adequacy will account a ample arrangement of industries including civic aegis and intelligence, online mapping, accompaniment and bounded governments, ecology ecology and acreage use management, oil and gas, mining, utilities, adversity management, allowance and others.

For added advice about GeoEye-1 or IKONOS digital imaging articles and services, amuse contact;

Satellite Imaging Corporation
12777 Jones Road, Suite 370
Houston, TX 77070-4671
USA

Tel: (1) 832-237-2900
Website: http://www.satimagingcorp.com