GeoEye (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation or ORBIMAGE) is a commercial satellite imagery company based in Dulles, Virginia.. that is the world's largest space imaging corporation.. The company was founded in 1992 as a division of Orbital Sciences Corporation in the wake of the 1992 Land Remote Sensing Policy Act which permitted private companies to enter the satellite imaging business. The division was spun off in 1997. It changed its name to GeoEye in 2006 after acquiring Denver, Colorado-based Space Imaging for $58 million. Space Imaging was founded and controlled by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Its principal asset was the IKONOS satellite.

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  • GeoEye (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation or ORBIMAGE) is a commercial satellite imagery company based in Dulles, Virginia.. that is the world's largest space imaging corporation.. The company was founded in 1992 as a division of Orbital Sciences Corporation in the wake of the 1992 Land Remote Sensing Policy Act which permitted private companies to enter the satellite imaging business. The division was spun off in 1997. It changed its name to GeoEye in 2006 after acquiring Denver, Colorado-based Space Imaging for $58 million. Space Imaging was founded and controlled by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Its principal asset was the IKONOS satellite. Although ORBIMAGE's first chairman was Orbital chairman David W. Thompson and Orbital at the time owned more than 60 percent of the stock, it no longer has a substantial interest in the new company. GeoEye provides 253 million square kilometers of satellite map images to Microsoft and Yahoo! search engines. Google has exclusive online mapping use of the GeoEye-1 satellite. It is a major client of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GeoEye's headquarters are in Dulles, Virginia. Satellite Operations are conducted in Dulles, Virginia and in Thornton, Colorado. Locations in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Norman, Oklahoma provide additional image processing. There are multiple ground stations located worldwide. GeoEye's primary competitors are DigitalGlobe and Spot Image. Since 2001 its chairman has been former astronaut and 3-star general James A. Abrahamson. (en)
  • GeoEye ist der Name des weltgrößten Unternehmens für den Vertrieb von Satellitenfotos und die Bereitstellung von Daten für Geoinformationssysteme. Es hat seinen Sitz in Dulles im US-Bundesstaat Virginia und wurde im Januar 2006 nach der Übernahme von Space Imaging durch Orbimage Holdings Inc gegründet. Mit seinen etwa 300 Mitarbeitern erreicht es nach dem Zusammenschluss einen Umsatz von mehr als 200 Millionen US-Dollar. GeoEye betreibt drei Beobachtungssatelliten mit einer Ortsauflösung von besser als 1 m: OrbView-2, OrbView-3 und IKONOS. Ein weiterer Satellit, GeoEye-1, wurde am 6. September 2008 gestartet. (de)
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  • GeoEye (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation or ORBIMAGE) is a commercial satellite imagery company based in Dulles, Virginia.. that is the world's largest space imaging corporation.. The company was founded in 1992 as a division of Orbital Sciences Corporation in the wake of the 1992 Land Remote Sensing Policy Act which permitted private companies to enter the satellite imaging business. The division was spun off in 1997. It changed its name to GeoEye in 2006 after acquiring Denver, Colorado-based Space Imaging for $58 million. Space Imaging was founded and controlled by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Its principal asset was the IKONOS satellite. (en)
  • GeoEye ist der Name des weltgrößten Unternehmens für den Vertrieb von Satellitenfotos und die Bereitstellung von Daten für Geoinformationssysteme. (de)
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