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GeoEye Begins Commercial Operations Of GeoEye-1 Satellite

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Monday, February 9th, 2009

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GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY]is starting commercial operations for its new GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite. The firm also is submitting imagery from the satellite to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for their certification under the terms of the NextView contract. The NextView program is designed to ensure that the NGA has access to commercial imagery in support of its mission to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security. GeoEye won its $500-million NextView contract in September 2004. In…

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