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Plenty of stuff has happened over the past 11 years. We had 9/11, two wars, a deepening recession, jarring political divisiveness, American Idol and all the while, one thing has remained constant: IKONOS, the world’s first commercial, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin and currently operated by GeoEye has achieved 11 years of successful on-orbit operations. A first-of-its-kind satellite, IKONOS was launched on Sept. 24, 1999 to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth for worldwide commercial and government customers. The spacecraft continues to collect 0.82-meter resolution black-and-white images while simultaneously collecting four-meter resolution multispectral data more than four years beyond its initial design life. These images are used for a wide-range of applications, including land management, environmental monitoring, local and regional government, national security, disaster relief, and other geospatial applications. Congratulations to Lockheed and GeoEye for achieving this major milestone. And, you can read more about it here.

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