GeoEye
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GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation, or ORBIMAGE) was an American commercial satellite imagery company based in Herndon, Virginia. GeoEye was merged into the DigitalGlobe corporation on January 29, 2013.
Key facts
- Company.name
- GeoEye Inc.
- Company.logo
- GeoEyeLogo.jpg
- Company.foundation
- 1992 Orbital Imaging Corporation2006 GeoEye
- Company.location_city
- Herndon, Virginia
- Company.location_country
- United States
- Company.founder
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Company.key_people
- James Alan Abrahamson (chairman), Matthew O'Connell, (CEO)
- Company.defunct
- January 2013, merged with DigitalGlobe
- Company.revenue
- US$183.76 million (2007)
- Company.operating_income
- US$80.33 million (2007)
- Company.net_income
- US$42.39 million (2007)
- Company.assets
- US$789.95 million (2007)
- Company.equity
- US$216.92 million (2007)
- Company.num_employees
- 410 (2008)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Satellites
- OrbView 1
- IKONOS
- {{anchor|OrbView-2}} OrbView-2
- OrbView-3
- OrbView 4
- GeoEye-1
- GeoEye-2
- Aerial imagery
- Regional affiliates
- References
- External links
GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation, or ORBIMAGE) was an American commercial satellite imagery company based in Herndon, Virginia. GeoEye was merged into the DigitalGlobe corporation on January 29, 2013.
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 Corporation for $58 million. Space Imaging was founded and controlled by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Its principal asset was the IKONOS satellite; the company was founded in the 1990s for the purpose of managing the project that became the IKONOS satellite.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GeoEye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.