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15 Sep 2009
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GeoEye Celebrates GeoEye-1 Satellite’s First Year in Space
Added by USGIF Category: Daily Intelligence Brief, General
Yesterday, GeoEye announced the one-year launch anniversary of GeoEye-1, its ultra high resolution and amazingly accurate commercial Earth-imaging satellite. On September 8, 2008, the satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and according to Bill Schuster, GeoEye’s Chief Operating Officer, “The past year has been an exciting and rewarding one for GeoEye. With the launch of GeoEye-1 last September, we put into service the world’s most advanced commercial imagery satellite, which is delivering the highest resolution, most accurate color satellite imagery available today.”
