Technology Enabling New And Better Satellite Services

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Increasingly capable satellites are enabling companies to offer new commercial communications and imagery services, according to a panel of experts speaking April 1 at the National Space Symposium here.rnSatellite imagery provider GeoEye of Dulles, Va., for example, is working with ITT Space Systems Division of Rochester, N.Y., to develop the camera for the planned Geo-Eye-2 satellite that could take pictures of the Earth's surface with 25-centimeter resolution as early as 2012, said William Schuster, GeoEye's chief operating officer. GeoEye's Geo-Eye-1 satellite, launched last year, offers 50-centimeter resolution.