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GeoEye
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Also known as ORBIMAGE, GeoEye Inc.

GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation, or ORBIMAGE) was an American commercial satellite imagery company based in Herndon, Virginia. GeoEye was merged into the DigitalGlobe corporation on January 29, 2013.

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Within Vinony's link graph, GeoEye is referenced by 253 other articles, and connects out to Ikonos, Space Foundation and WorldView-4.

It sits within the topics 2013 mergers and acquisitions, Cerberus Capital Management companies and Companies based in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Company.name
GeoEye Inc.
Company.logo
GeoEyeLogo.jpg
Company.foundation
1992 Orbital Imaging Corporation2006 GeoEye
Company.location_city
Herndon, Virginia
Company.location_country
United States
Company.founder
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Company.key_people
James Alan Abrahamson (chairman), Matthew O'Connell, (CEO)
Company.defunct
January 2013, merged with DigitalGlobe
Company.revenue
US$183.76 million (2007)
Company.operating_income
US$80.33 million (2007)
Company.net_income
US$42.39 million (2007)
Company.assets
US$789.95 million (2007)
Company.equity
US$216.92 million (2007)
Company.num_employees
410 (2008)

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.geoeye.com
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inception
1992-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2013-01-00
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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections
Contents
  • Satellites
  • OrbView 1
  • IKONOS
  • {{anchor|OrbView-2}} OrbView-2
  • OrbView-3
  • OrbView 4
  • GeoEye-1
  • GeoEye-2
  • Aerial imagery
  • Regional affiliates
  • References
  • External links

GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation, or ORBIMAGE) was an American commercial satellite imagery company based in Herndon, Virginia. GeoEye was merged into the DigitalGlobe corporation on January 29, 2013.

The company was founded in 1992 as a division of Orbital Sciences Corporation in the wake of the 1992 Land Remote Sensing Policy Act which permitted private companies to enter the satellite imaging business. The division was spun off in 1997. It changed its name to GeoEye in 2006 after acquiring Denver, Colorado-based Space Imaging Corporation for $58 million. Space Imaging was founded and controlled by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Its principal asset was the IKONOS satellite; the company was founded in the 1990s for the purpose of managing the project that became the IKONOS satellite.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GeoEye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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