Sentences with phrase «commercial imaging satellites»

Commercial imaging satellites tend to be big, expensive, and seriously high - tech, which is why there are fewer than a dozen in orbit today.

«GeoEye - 1 will have the best accuracy and resolution of any commercial imaging satellite in the world when it goes up,» says Bill Schuster, GeoEye's CEO.

Not exact matches

PAYPAL founder Elon Musk's civilian spaceflight company, SpaceX, achieved its first commercial success this week after its homegrown Falcon 1 rocket lofted a Malaysian Earth - imaging satellite into orbit.

We found that upon closer observation that several of the species being preserved are under great commercial pressure for timber putting them at greater risk of extinction — observations that might be lost in high - level imaging such as those derived from satellites.»

Hyperspectral imaging is used today in everything from satellite imaging and energy monitoring to infrastructure and food safety inspections, but the technology's high cost has historically limited its use to industrial or commercial purposes.

Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2007, Joy was the controller for Space Imaging, the nation's first commercial satellite provider of one - meter resolution imagery and worked closely on contracts for the Department of Defense.

One of the major differences between HAWX and anything else available is the inclusion of real life imagery from GeoEye's commercial Earth - imaging IKONOS satellite system.

The launch was primarily designed to bring the PAZ satellite to orbit (which was deployed as planned into a low Earth, sun - synchronous polar orbit), a satellite for a Spanish customer that's designed to provide geocommunications and radar imaging for both government and private commercial customers.