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NGA Won’t Exercise GeoEye’s EnhancedView Option; Company Won’t Delay GeoEye-2 Launch

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

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GeoEye Inc. executives don’t see “any scenario” where the company would delay the first half-2013 launch of its second commercial high-resolution imagery satellite, GeoEye-2, after the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) said it would not exercise the full year EnhancedView Service Level Agreement option for this contract year starting Sept. 1. EnhancedView is a program to provide NGA with satellite imagery. “I don’t see any (scenario where it would make sense to delay launch),” GeoEye Chief Executive Officer Matthew O’Connell said…

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