Astrium Services Girds for Competition with DiqitalGlobe-GeoEve Combo

摘要

Astrium Services is counting on two Earth observation satellites in final assembly here to give it sufficient firepower in 2013 to do battle with the merged assets of U.S. satellite Earth imagery providers Dig-italGlobe and GeoEye. The two satellites, the high-resolution Pleiades IB and medium-resolution Spot 7, will be operated in tandem with their recently launched twins to create a four-satellite constellation spaced 90 degrees apart. That will minimize the time period between a request for imagery and when the imagery is collected.