Ikonos Satellite Marks 10 Years In Operations International Space Denver. the world's first commercial, high resolution, earth imaging satellite, ikonos, will achieve its 10th year of operation on sept. 24. built by lockheed martin , the satellite continues to provide high resolution imagery of the earth to commercial and government customers around the world. ikonos is owned and operated by geoeye of dulles, va. All domain operations. space capabilities. lockheed martin built ikonos satellite marks 10 years in operations. september 24, 2009 .
Ikonos Satellite Sensor Satellite Images Geospatial Data Earth Views Launched by space imaging in 1999, ikonos 2 was the world’s first commercial high resolution imaging satellite. ikonos 2 was built in parallel with and as an identical twin to ikonos 1, however failure to launch ikonos 1 led to the renaming of ikonos 2 to ikonos following its launch. ikonos 2 was decommissioned in march 2015, ending a 15 year. Last month, the lockheed martin built ikonos satellite surpassed 13 years of successful on orbit operations. launched sept. 24, 1999, the satellite has collected the world’s largest archive of. Ikonos was a three axis stabilized spacecraft designed by lockheed martin space systems. the design later became known as the lm 900 satellite bus and was optimized to carry remote sensing payloads. [ 20] four reaction wheels stabilized the spacecraft's altitude, which was measured by two star trackers and a sun sensor. The first high resolution commercial imaging satellite. launched on sept. 24, 1999, the ikonos satellite was a pioneering step in the new commercial earth observation industry. it was the first commercial satellite to collect high resolution images of the earth. over its lifetime, ikonos took 597,802 public images, covering more than 154.
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