{"id":83162,"date":"2012-05-02T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-integrates-geoeye-2-imaging-payload-on-spacecraft-bus\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T18:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:25:35","slug":"lockheed-martin-integrates-geoeye-2-imaging-payload-on-spacecraft-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-integrates-geoeye-2-imaging-payload-on-spacecraft-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Integrates GeoEye-2 Imaging Payload on Spacecraft Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-02-12] <b>Lockheed Martin Space Systems<\/b> has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the imaging payload for <b>GeoEye<\/b>\u2019s next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, the manufacturer announced May 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The GeoEye-2 imaging payload includes a telescope, sensor subsystem and outer barrel assembly that can capture panchromatic ground sample distance imagery of the Earth\u2019s surface at 0.34-meter ground resolution from an altitude of 681 kilometers.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThis key milestone paves the way for the team to begin system level environmental and acceptance testing in preparation for on-orbit operations in 2013,\u201d Lockheed Martin GeoEye-2 Program Director Allen Anderson said in a statement. \u201cWe are on track to complete the remaining integration and test work on-schedule and look forward to the ultimate deployment of this cutting-edge satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Lockheed Martin is developing GeoEye-2 under a fixed-price contract. United Launch Alliance will send GeoEye-2 into orbit onboard an Atlas 5 rocket in 2013. Once operational, GeoEye-2 will work to provide imagery to intelligence analysts, warfighters and military decision-makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-02-12] Lockheed Martin Space Systems has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the imaging payload for GeoEye\u2019s next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, the manufacturer announced May 1. &nbsp; &nbsp;The GeoEye-2 imaging payload includes a telescope, sensor subsystem and outer barrel assembly that can capture panchromatic ground sample distance imagery of the Earth\u2019s surface at 0.34-meter ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}