Continuing Leadership in Imaging Expertise: These slides were presented by GeoEye, ITT Exelis, and Lockheed Martin who shared performance highlights and what you can expect from the world’s highest resolution and most accurate imaging satellite. Learn more about GeoEye-2 here: http://launch.geoeye.com/LaunchSite

1. GeoEye-2: Less than 12
Months To Launch
Setting the new standard for
resolution and accuracy
June 5th 2012
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3. Topics
› Global Market Trends
› How is GeoEye Elevating Insight?
› GeoEye Earth Imagery Delivers Clear Insight
› GeoEye-2 Builds On This Strong Heritage
› GeoEye Constellation Will Lead the Industry
› Will Position Us To Deliver New Class of
Services
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4. Our world is full of threats and opportunities
Critical Infrastructure Development Natural / Manmade Disasters
Geopolitical Instability Military Conflict

5. Everything Happens …
Someplace Sometime
Geospatial Information and Insight
Can Drive Better Decisions!
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6. GeoEye is Elevating Insight
…
Help decision makers see, understand,
and respond to our changing world
Earth Geospatial Enabling
Imagery Expertise Technologies
Clear Insight Deep Insight Timely Insight
Protect Lives, Manage Risk, and Optimize Resources
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7. Elevating Insight for Economic Growth
Russian Cadastral Mapping Project
Clarifying ownership = increased investment
17,000,000 square kilometer land mass
Imaging the entire country in two years
Impossible to do with aerial collection
Already mapped 49,000,000 parcels
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8. GeoEye-1 Half-Meter Imagery | Moscow, Russia

9. GeoEye-1 Half-Meter Imagery | St. Petersburg, Russia

10. GeoEye-1 Half-Meter Imagery | October 6, 2009 | Port of Kozmino, Russia
GeoEye-1 Port of Kozmino, RUSSIA October 6,
2009

11. GeoEye-1 Half-Meter Imagery | January 26, 2011 | Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia
GeoEye-1 Domodedovo International Airport,
Moscow, RUSSIA January 26, 2011

12. GeoEye-1 Half-Meter Imagery | September 6, 2009 | Valley of Geysers, Kamchatka, Russia

13. GeoEye-1 Half-Meter Imagery| January 5, 2009 | Vladivostok, Russia
GeoEye-1 Vladivostok, RUSSIA January 5,
2009

14. GeoEye-2 will set new standard!
› Camera: Most Advanced
‒ .34-meter resolution brings precise
views
‒ Wider field of view
‒ Most accurate
› Spacecraft: Improved agility
‒ Control Moment Gyros
‒ Direct tasking and downlink
› Ground Architecture: Future Oriented
Design
‒ Collection planning, production,
exploitation and analysis, and
dissemination technologies
Faster delivery of the most precise imagery
enables clear and timely insight.
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15. Resolution Matters – Moving Beyond
Mapping
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16. Post Tornado - Greensburg, KS - May 12, 2007
Resolution:
1m
.82 m
.50 m
****************
.41 m
.34 m
.15 m (6 in)
**Satellite License
Restriction

17. Post Tornado - Greensburg, KS - May 12, 2007
Resolution:
1m
.82 m
.50 m
****************
.41 m
.34 m
.15 m (6 in)
**Satellite License
Restriction

18. Post Tornado - Greensburg, KS - May 12, 2007
Resolution:
1m
.82 m
.50 m
****************
.41 m
.34 m
.15 m (6 in)
**Satellite License
Restriction

19. Post Tornado - Greensburg, KS - May 12, 2007
Resolution:
1m
.82 m
.50 m
****************
.41 m
.34 m
.15 m (6 in)
**Satellite License
Restriction

20. Post Tornado - Greensburg, KS - May 12, 2007
Resolution:
1m
.82 m
.50 m
****************
.41 m
.34 m
.15 m (6 in)
**Satellite License
Restriction

21. Post Tornado - Greensburg, KS - May 12, 2007
Resolution:
1m
.82 m
.50 m
****************
.41 m
.34m
.15 m (6 in)
**Satellite License
Restriction

22. We are less than a year from launch!
Primary Mirror ITT successfully ITT Exelis
GeoEye Wins Launch and
Blank Assembly completes delivers the
EnhancedView begin
Delivered to ITT Critical Design imaging system
Contract Operations!
Review to Lockheed
2007 2008 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2012 2012 2013
GeoEye Lockheed GeoEye
GeoEye Selects Lockheed
Initiates Completes Successfully
Lockheed begins bus
Development Design Review Completes Final
Martin to Build integration and
of GeoEye-2 ahead of Critical Design
GeoEye-2 testing
schedule Review

23. GeoEye’s Constellation High Resolution Color Constellation
Enables Customers to Move Beyond
Mapping
› GeoEye 1 & 2 phased for optimal high
resolution collection
‒ Enables true 50 cm collection
‒ Optimized for regional high quality
imaging
› The only <41cm commercial color
constellation on orbit
‒ Shortest time to access
‒ Longest access times
› Supports mission and business critical
applications
The only <41cm commercial color
constellation on orbit
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24. Making Investments To Maximize Platform
› Integrated Constellation Management
‒ Task GeoEye-1 and GeoEye-2 to maximize collection
‒ Most efficient collector of <50 cm imagery in the world
› Integrated Processing and Exploitation
‒ Extract insights from pixels within minutes of collection
‒ Leverage deep expertise in feature extraction and analytics
› Open Ground Architecture
‒ Able to run on commodity hardware or in cloud
‒ Enables us to support a variety of customer deployments
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25. Elevating Insight – On-Demand

26. GeoEye-2 Webinar:
Continuing Leadership in
Imaging Expertise
Kyle Schmackpfeffer
Director Commercial Optical Sensing
Systems, ITT Exelis
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27. Exelis’ Long History of Commercial Remote
Sensing Solutions
› ITT Exelis provides sensor subsystems and imaging payloads
for U.S. commercial remote sensing providers
‒ Designed and built the entire imaging payload
for IKONOS, GeoEye-1 and GeoEye-2
 IKONOS: 0.7 m telescope and outer barrel assembly;
pan and 4 bands MS sensor
 GeoEye-1: 1.1 m telescope and outer barrel assembly;
pan and 4 bands MS sensor
 GeoEye-2: 1.1 m telescope and outer barrel assembly;
pan and 4 bands MS sensor
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28. Optical Telescope Unit / Outer Barrel Assembly
› Focal length increased relative to GeoEye-1
‒ Enables GeoEye-2’s 34cm resolution from
681km altitude
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29. Sensor Subsystem
› Faster line rates than GeoEye-1 and minor design changes to
improve image quality (noise, banding and streaking, etc.)
Focal Plane Unit (FPU) Data Processing Unit (DPU) Power Supply Unit (PSU)
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30. We’ve come a long way….
› IKONOS vs. GeoEye-2 comparison…
Parameter IKONOS GeoEye-2 Improvement
Aperture 0.7 m 1.1 m 57% larger
Pan Pixel Pitch 12 mm 8 mm 33% smaller
Number of Pan Pixels ~14,200 ~42,500 200% more
Pan GSD at 681km 0.82 m 0.34 m 59% better
Swath at 681 km 11.3 km 14.5 km 28% wider
Max Line Rate 6,500 lps 24,000 lps 269% faster
Area Collection Rate 60 km2/s 118 km2/s 97% more
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31. Payload Delivery
› On April 10, 2012, ITT Exelis announced
that the GeoEye -2 imaging payload was
delivered to Lockheed Martin Space
Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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32. GeoEye-2 Webinar:
Continuing Leadership in
Imaging Expertise
Paul McDonald
GE-2 Space Vehicle Director, Lockheed
Martin
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33. LM Heritage
› 50+ years of heritage across 5 generations of imaging satellite
design, fabrication, test and operation
‒ 1’st Generation: Corona, Gambit & Hexagon
‒ 2’nd Generation: Hubble Space Telescope
‒ 3’rd Generation: IKONOS
‒ 4’th Generation: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
‒ 5’th Generation: GeoEye-2
› Resulting GeoEye-2 design has unprecedented commercial
imaging performance
› Depth of experience in system integration
‒ High level of user flexibility implemented in GeoEye-2 operation &
ground software to serve GeoEye collection needs
‒ GeoEye-2 ground software developed to take full advantage of satellite
capabilities driving satellite collection volume to new levels
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34. LM Satellite Evolution for GeoEye
Ikonos GeoEye-2
› 0.7 m optics / 12 mm pixel size › 1.1 m optics / 8 mm pixel size
› 14,200 pixels, 6,500 Klps line rate › 42,500 pixels, 24,000 Klps line rate
› Reaction wheel agility › Reaction wheel agility
› Gimbaled 320 Mb/s downlink › Gimbaled 800 Mb/s downlink
› ROC tasking/downlink › ROC tasking/downlink
› 84 lbs propellant › 1000 lbs propellant
› 64 Gb data storage › 3,200 Gb data storage
› 1,600 lb weight › 5,600 lb weight
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35. LM GeoEye-2 Program Overview / Progress
› 90% of spacecraft hardware
delivered and installed
› ITT Exelis payload delivered
and mated to spacecraft
› Vehicle testing ongoing
› Cmd & Control Ground SW in
acceptance testing
› Collection Mgt Ground SW
completed acceptance testing
› On schedule for early 2013
launch
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36. GeoEye-2 Capability Summary
› Imaging resolution
‒ 0.34 m GSD at nadir: NIIRS 5.5 (baseline 681 km orbit)
‒ 0.25 m GSD at nadir: NIIRS 6.0 (alternate 500 km orbit)
› Satellite daily area collection capability
‒ Simultaneous collection of 0.5m pan and 2.0m four band MS data
‒ Simultaneous image data collection and downlink
‒ On-board storage capability of > 600 images
› Real time geolocation accuracy of < 4.0 m
› Mission operations
‒ Regional / theater user tasking and downlink
‒ Mission planning interleaves multiple user requests
› 7 yr design life
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37. GeoEye-2 Horizontal in Test Facility
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38. Summary
GeoEye-2 on
GeoEye-2 sets a new
schedule for launch
standard
in 2013
Constellation will Positioned for next
enable mission and generation geospatial
business critical services to deliver
applications insight on demand
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39. Visit our GeoEye-2 launch site at:
http://launch.geoeye.com/LaunchSite/
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