ITT Delivers Imaging Sensor for GeoEye-1 Satellite

WHITE PLAINS, NY., Feb. 19, 2007/Satnews Daily/ ― ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has successfully shipped to General Dynamics a next-generation commercial imaging payload for the GeoEye-1 satellite.

ITT's contribution includes the design and manufacture of the electro-optical assembly (camera) that will take pan-sharpened, multi-spectral images of the earth with better than 0.5-meter resolution from 425 miles above the Earth. GeoEye plans to launch GeoEye-1 later this year from Vandenberg AFB, California.

The GeoEye-1 satellite will be equipped with the most advanced technology ever used in a commercial remote sensing system. It will be able to precisely locate an object to within three meters of its true location on the surface of the Earth without the use of ground control points.

Frank Koester, ITT Space System Division vice-president and director, Commercial and Space Science Systems, said the company was proud to play a key role in this satellite, which will attain a degree of accuracy and ground resolution never before achieved in a commercial imaging system.

Koester said the ITT imaging payload will capture information used to map and monitor a wide range of man-made and natural features on Earth.  The delivery of the GeoEye-1 payload is the second of three sensors to be supplied by ITT under the U.S. government's NextView program. ITT delivered the first sensor to DigitalGlobe for its WorldView-1 satellite.

The ITT electro-optical "camera" delivered to General Dynamics includes the optical telescope assembly, the detectors and focal plane assembly and high-speed digital processing electronics. 

ITT Corporation supplies technology products and services. It plays a role in international security through its defense communications and electronics products; space surveillance and intelligence systems; and advanced engineering and related services. It also serves the growing leisure marine and electronic components markets with a range of products.

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