DigitalGlobe Selects Raytheon to Provide Satellite Constellation Management System to Optimize Imagery Collection and Delivery
April 13 2010 - 8:00AM
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DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial
high-resolution world-imagery products and services for defense and
intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, today
announced that it has contracted with Raytheon Company to provide
an enhanced constellation collection management system. Using a
strategic analysis of collection orders and other company
priorities, the system will further optimize the use of
DigitalGlobe's constellation -- the largest in the industry, with
three sub-meter satellites already on orbit -- ensuring efficient
imagery collection and fast delivery to its customers, and
providing a foundation for future capacity growth.
"For today's imagery user, it's all about speed of large area
collection and refresh, customers demand both," said Dr. Walter
Scott, founder and chief technology officer of DigitalGlobe.
"Raytheon's new system will provide state of the art capabilities
to ensure our constellation now and in the future is able to
provide a robust collection capacity, dependable refresh,
collection reliability, intra-day revisit, and ultimately deliver
on our promise to provide the most timely, relevant imagery when
our customers need it."
"Raytheon is excited about this opportunity to provide
DigitalGlobe a constellation management solution with
state-of-the-art mission capabilities. We're bringing over 35 years
experience providing mission management solutions to this new
customer," said Barbara Johnson, Vice President of Intelligence and
Information Systems, Ground Enterprise Solutions.
The October 2009 launch of WorldView-2, the company's latest
high-resolution satellite, drove a sharp increase in DigitalGlobe's
collection capacity. Today, the company's three satellites,
QuickBird, WorldView-1, and WorldView-2, collect an
industry-leading 500 million square kilometers of imagery annually.
This collection capacity enables DigitalGlobe to provide the most
comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate imagery, delivered via its
web services or traditional offline methods.
To learn more about DigitalGlobe and its satellite
constellation, please visit www.digitalglobe.com.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe (http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a leading global
provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and
services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation,
our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense
and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis,
environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure
management, internet portals and navigation technology. With our
collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more
than one billion square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery
products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and
services designed to enable customers to easily access and
integrate our imagery into their business operations and
applications. For more information, please visit
www.digitalglobe.com.
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Contact Investor Contact: David Banks DigitalGlobe 303.684.4210
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