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December 1st, 2008

RapidEye Rollout Reveals Real Estate Of Considerable Proportions


RapidEye-4 photo of Odessa, Texas RapidEye has opened their new Image Gallery at their website. The Image Gallery will feature high resolution satellite images taken from around the world by RapidEye's constellation of five spacecraft.

RapidEye plans to update the Image Gallery regularly as new, exciting images become available. The new gallery currently includes six images in South America and the U.S. Among these are the area around the volcano Tunupa in Bolivia, oil fields in the vicinity of Odessa, Texas, as well as an agricultural area near São Paulo, Brazil. RapidEye successfully launched their constellation of satellites at the end of August, and is currently moving closer to completing final testing and calibration activities that will allow for commercial operations. (Image is from the RapidEye Gallery and is of Odessas, Texas, and was acquired by CHOROS (aka: RapidEye-4) on November 9th of 2008.)