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To: Norm Franklin who wrote (640)	12/28/1997 6:54:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2394

Norm & thread: Quite interesting indeed. You know I kinda read it the other day and didn't pay much attention,untill you have posted the link so I went back and read it again.The obvious implication for Orbimmage will be competition.I don't recall Orbimmage's pic will be 3 meters or not.I guess the most successfull among the lot will be the ones who can market their product aggressively,creatively and price the product appropriately. It will be nice to hear others opinions on this. <"EarlyBird 1" was designed to pick out features on the ground as small as three meters (10 feet) across. It was successfully launched Wednesday atop a Russian rocket by its builder, EarthWatch, of Longmont, Colo.> It looks like there is more competition in the offing. <EarthWatch, Spot and firms in India, Israel, Russia and China plan to launch next-generation satellites in coming years capable of distinguishing ground objects with a diameter as small as one meter (39.37 inches).>

To: Norm Franklin who wrote (640)	12/28/1997 5:50:00 PM
From: Dowscanner	Respond to of 2394

Orbinage competition Orbital's ORBIMAGE subsidiary is offering satellite-based Earth imaging services worldwide with two operational satellites, OrbView-1 and -2. Looking to the future, ORBIMAGE's OrbView-3 and OrbView-4 high-resolution digital imaging satellites expected to be in service in 1999 and 2000. ORBIMAGE's OrbView-2 imaging satellite launched in August(97) from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Orbital also announced that the U.S. Air Force contracted for an estimated $41.5 million in hyperspectral imagery and related technology and services from its OrbView-3 satellite. Scheduled for launch in mid- to late 1999, the satellite will feature 1-meter panchromatic resolution, 4 meter multispectral resolution and 8-meter hyperspectral resolution. Space Imaging EOSAT plans to launch IKONOS-1, its 1-meter resolution satellite, in December 1997. EOSAT is the world's primary source of satellite imagery of the Earth for use in commercial, government, research and academic applications. The company operates the U.S. Landsat remote sensing satellites and is marketing data from the Indian IRS satellites. EOSAT, formed in 1984, is a joint venture partnership of Hughes Aircraft Co., and Martin Marietta Corporation (then RCA). Over the past decade, EOSAT has successfully changed from being a government experiment selling only Landsat data to a successful international commercial enterprise. The 1m panchromatic satellite of Space Imaging Eosat, now known as Ikonos-1, will fly in December, and in mid-1998 EarthWatch's QuickBird 1m satellite will follow. The Halla Group of Korea has joined Mitsubishi of Japan in taking equity in Space Imaging Eosat. Hitachi of Japan has invested in EarthWatch. Orbital Imaging's Orbview-3 is expected to fly in 1999. Aerospatiale of France is marketing its proposed Isys 1m system to defence ministries in Asia. Meanwhile, EarthWatch made headlines by announcing that EarlyBird-1 is slated for launch in late September/early October--more than a year behind its original schedule--and that it plans to launch its QuickBird 1 meter resolution satellite in November 1998 despite a pending request with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission seeking an additional two years to build the spacecraft. EarthWatch plans to build a constellation of commercial imaging satellites that initially will consist of two EarlyBird and two QuickBird satellites.

To: Norm Franklin who wrote (640)	12/29/1997 1:30:00 PM
From: RP Svoboda	Respond to of 2394

<<Here's something to rattle Orbimage's cage: yahoo.com; This is not a concern. I posted message 269 and/or 270 and a few others about the subject a while back. The key here is that there will be a few U.S. controlled companies that will succeed in this area during the short term (five years) due to the statement from a smallsat conference. . . It is our recommendation that funds appropriated for small imagery satellites in 1996 be applied to this objective [building a U.S. led civilian imagery industry to replace NRO assets] and that adequate resources be included in subsequent years. Orbital is probably the third strongest of all the contenders. I am fully confident that they currently do, and will continue to fall under the special business practice clause. Here are the sources. . . fas.org and nro.odci.gov Thanks. Boda