DENVER, Sept. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IKONOS, built by
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for DigitalGlobe, Inc., [NYSE: DGI],
celebrates its 15th birthday on-orbit today. IKONOS, the
first satellite to collect and publicly share high-resolution earth
images, was launched on Sept. 24,
1999, and has taken thousands of photos of Earth for
applications including national security, disaster relief,
agriculture, and mapping.
Today, IKONOS continues to perform more than seven years beyond
its initial design life, collecting 0.82-meter resolution
black-and-white imagery and 3.28-meter resolution multispectral
data.
"This milestone is one more chapter in the legacy of our
expertise in earth imaging. Lockheed Martin has provided more than
300 remote sensing satellites to commercial, civil and military
customers," said Mike Hamel, vice
president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Commercial
Space.
Most recently, Lockheed Martin built the WorldView-4 (previously
GeoEye-2) satellite, which will serve as DigitalGlobe's next
high-resolution imaging satellite to provide multispectral imagery
to commercial, government and international customers. The
satellite is planned for launch in mid-2016.
Headquartered in Bethesda,
Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace
company that employs approximately 113,000 people worldwide and is
principally engaged in the research, design, development,
manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology
systems, products and services. The Corporation's net sales for
2013 were $45.4
billion.
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SOURCE Lockheed Martin