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IKONOS Satellite Built By LM Achieves 9 Years In Service
(Denver, September 24, 2008) -- The IKONOS commercial remote sensing satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], today achieved its ninth year of on-orbit service and continues to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth to commercial and government customers around the world. IKONOS is owned and operated by GeoEye [NASDAQ: GEOY] of Dulles, Va.
The world's first commercial high-resolution imaging system was launched Sept. 24, 1999 with an anticipated life expectancy of five-to-seven years. In 2007, Lockheed Martin performed a life expectancy analysis for GeoEye and determined the spacecraft may continue to be fully operational into the next decade.
The spacecraft collects 0.82-meter resolution black-and-white imagery while simultaneously collecting just better than four-meter resolution multispectral data. These map-accurate images are used for applications in land management, environmental monitoring, local and regional government, national security, disaster relief, news gathering, and many other geospatial applications. IKONOS has collected the world's largest archive of commercial, high-resolution Earth imagery.
"We take great pride in the spacecraft's sustained record of performance in addition to the amazing ways the imagery has been used over the past nine years," said Jim Crocker, vice president of Sensing and Exploration Systems at Lockheed Martin Space Systems. "From high above, IKONOS truly broke ground on a new commercial industry."
Bill Schuster, GeoEye chief operating officer said, "This achievement demonstrates the viability of commercial remote sensing as a means to address the many important requirements our government and commercial customers have for high-quality, map-accurate satellite imagery."
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