Sep 6, 2008
GeoEye launches high-resolution satellite
By Andrea Shalal-Esa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - GeoEye Inc said it successfully launched into space on Saturday its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide the U.S. government, Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.
"It was a picture-perfect launch and we've now gotten confirmation that ... we have commanded the satellite and it has responded," GeoEye Chief Executive Matthew O'Connell told Reuters in a telephone interview from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where the satellite was launched at 11:50 a.m. PDT (2:50 p.m. EDT).
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