EarthWatch launches satellite from Russia site
LONGMONT — Satellite builder EarthWatch Inc. launched the EarlyBird 1 from a Start-1 launch vehicle in eastern Russia in December.
The EarlyBird is the first commercial satellite to be launched at Russia’s newest commercial launch site — the Svobodny Cosmodrome.
It sends imagery of the Earth at a three-meter resolution. Pictures will be used for city planning, agriculture, and land, infrastructure and natural resources management.
EarthWatch employs about 80 people. It was formed in 1995 by the merger of the commercial remote sensing projects of Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and WorldView Imaging Corp.
The company declined to disclose revenue figures.
LONGMONT — Satellite builder EarthWatch Inc. launched the EarlyBird 1 from a Start-1 launch vehicle in eastern Russia in December.
The EarlyBird is the first commercial satellite to be launched at Russia’s newest commercial launch site — the Svobodny Cosmodrome.
It sends imagery of the Earth at a three-meter resolution. Pictures will be used for city planning, agriculture, and land, infrastructure and natural resources management.
EarthWatch employs about 80 people. It was formed in 1995 by the merger of the commercial remote sensing projects of Ball…
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