[SatNews] ATK (NYSE: ATK) and NASA are marking the 10-year anniversary of NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.

The spacecraft, built by ATK for the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, had an initial design and mission life of one year, but continues operating today, more than nine years past the initial mission. The EO-1 satellite launched on November 21, 2000. ATK served as the Prime Contractor, Satellite Mission Integrator, and Bus Developer for the mission. The EO-1 project developed and validated a number of instrument and spacecraft bus breakthrough technologies designed to enable the development of future earth imaging observatories. EO-1 has acquired over 100,000 images to date, consisting of equal amounts of multispectral and hyperspectral imagery. EO-1 science data and research has spawned well over 430 related publications.  EO-1 is currently being used as part of a sensor web that allows autonomous observing of earth images. The spacecraft mission has also performed nontraditional earth observation activities such as the monitoring of brush fires, assessing post-hurricane damage and monitoring active volcanic eruptions using both multispectral and hyperspectral imaging.