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“Additional improvements can still be made, but we have succeeded in attaining our performance objectives,” he said. The company has thus begun selling GeoEye-1 imagery to government customers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East as well as commercial users. GeoEye is submitting the latest GeoEye-1 imagery to the NGA for certification, which is expected to take a couple of weeks, company spokesman Mark Brender said in an interview.
Once GeoEye-1 imagery is certified for use by the NGA, which procures commercial imagery on behalf of U. S. military and intelligence community users, GeoEye will begin receiving payments of $12.5 million per month for one year under a contract modification signed with the NGA in December 2008. After that contract expires, the company and the NGA will have to negotiate a new contract if sales are to continue, Brender said. Meanwhile, GeoEye is pressing ahead with plans for its third-generation imaging satellite, GeoEye-2, which will be similar to its predecessor but have some increased tasking capabilities and better ground resolution, Brender said.
The company has ordered $28 million worth of long-lead components for the GeoEye-2 sensor from ITT Space Systems of Rochester, N.
Y., which built GeoEye-1′s imaging camera, Brender said. GeoEye has not said whether the GeoEye-2 satellite platform will be procured from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems of Gilbert, Ariz.
, which built GeoEye-1. GeoEye anticipates launching the satellite as early as 2012. The U. S. government has yet to make clear whether it will underwrite construction of additional commercial imaging satellites as it did under the NextView program.
Pentagon plans last year to build up to two commercial-class imaging satellites to be operated by the U. S. National Reconnaissance Office and serve military and intelligence users were squashed by Congress. The Pentagon has not yet revealed the details of its budget request for 2010. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please tell me the main details and what this article means and what it is saying.
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