________________________________________________________________________________ Space Imaging Unveils FIRST IMAGE from the IKONOS Satellite on October 12, 1999 in Denver World’s First Commercial High-Resolution Satellite Image of the Earth Denver, Colo., October 7, 1999 – Space Imaging announced today that it will host an event unveiling the first image collected by the IKONOS satellite, the world’s first and only commercial high-resolution imaging satellite. Media are invited to attend this event in Thornton, Colo., 15 miles north of Denver, at 11:00 a.m. (MDT) on Tuesday, October 12, 1999. The IKONOS satellite was launched September 24, 1999 by an Athena II launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The satellite is performing as expected. The unveiling will include a presentation of the first image collected by IKONOS and be preceded by a tour of Space Imaging’s primary operations center. Media Tours Two separate but identical tours are scheduled (times and details are listed below). Each tour will include the mission control room, the image processing and robotic tape archiving area, and the production room where reporters will see satellite imagery product production. The tour will conclude with the 11:00 a.m. (MDT) unveiling of the first public IKONOS image. The image is of a North American city and is a one-meter resolution black-and-white image. Color imagery will be released at a later date as satellite check-out and calibration continue. The first tour of Space Imaging’s facility will begin at 7:45 a.m. (MDT) and end at 10:00 a.m. (MDT). This tour will be for the pool camera crew (NBC Affiliate, KUSA-TV Channel 9, Denver). The single pool camera crew will tape the tour and feed it to the Denver Teleport at about 12:30 p.m. (MDT). Broadcast media reporters may accompany the pool camera crew on this first tour. The second tour, for print reporters, still photographers and radio, will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. (MDT). Unveiling Presentation The 11:00 a.m. first image presentation will take place in Space Imaging’s third floor conference room and is for open media coverage. John Copple, Space Imaging’s chief executive officer, and Jeffrey Harris, president, will host the 30-minute presentation and be available for questions and answers. The first image will be made available to attending media in hardcopy 8x10 prints and on CD-ROM (jpeg and tiff file format). Also available will be Space Imaging’s media kit and corporate b-roll for broadcast media. The first image will be downloadable on October 12 at 11:30 a.m. (MDT) from the following Web sites: www.spaceimaging.com, newswire.spaceimaging.com, and www.businesswire.com (click on "Today’s PhotoWire"). To attend the IKONOS event, reporters should RSVP by Monday, October 11 at noon (MDT) by contacting Linda Lidov, public relations manager, at 303-254-2106 or llidov@spaceimaging.com. Parking is reserved for media vehicles at the rear (east side) of the building. Media check-in is in the main lobby at the front of the building on Grant Street. IKONOS is the first commercial imaging satellite of its kind. It simultaneously collects one-meter resolution black-and-white (panchromatic) images and four-meter resolution color (four-band multispectral) images. Designed to take digital images of the Earth from an orbit of 400 miles (680 kilometers) with a speed of about four-and-a-half miles (seven kilometers) per second, the satellite camera can distinguish objects on the Earth’s surface as small as one meter square, or about three feet, in size. At one-meter resolution one is able to see cars and trucks, roads, pipelines, individual trees, houses, large equipment, boats and ships, airplanes, and other objects at least one meter in size. IKONOS imagery will be made available for sale to customers in late 1999. The name IKONOS is derived from the Greek word for "image." The name is pronounced "Eye-KOH-nos." Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space (Sunnyvale, Calif.) served as the prime contractor for development and production of the IKONOS spacecraft, and the Athena II launch vehicle was produced by Lockheed Martin Astronautics (Denver, Colo.). Raytheon Company (Garland, Tex.) built the communications, image processing, and customer service elements. Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY) built the camera for IKONOS. For detailed information about Space Imaging and the recent launch of the IKONOS satellite, including archived video of the launch and audio of the post-launch news conference, visit www.spaceimaging.com or www.connectlive.com/events/spaceimaging. To subscribe to Space Imaging’s free email Newswire service, visit newswire.spaceimaging.com. Archived issues are also located at this site. http://www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/releases/1999/firstimg1.htm /* see also: maps for sale http://www.nettime.org/~rolux/archive/00000282.txt */ ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 1999 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org