{"id":87754,"date":"2009-12-18T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/geoeye-1-satellite-shut-down-after-antenna-malfunction\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:20","slug":"geoeye-1-satellite-shut-down-after-antenna-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/geoeye-1-satellite-shut-down-after-antenna-malfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoEye-1 Satellite Shut Down After Antenna Malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-18-09] The <strong>GeoEye<\/strong>-1 satellite experienced an irregularity in its antenna, which will impact GeoEye\u2019s 2010 revenues by as much as 10 percent and may affect its business with ground station downlink contracts overseas, the company announced in a Dec. 17 conference call.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In November, the Dulles, Va.-based imagery company had projected 2010 revenues of $310 million to $320 million.<br \/>\nGeoEye detected the glitch Dec. 11 and suspended the satellite\u2019s imagery collections for a few days. \u201cThe irregularity appears to limit the range of movement of GeoEye-1\u2019s downlink antenna, which may in turn affect GeoEye-1\u2019s ability to image and downlink simultaneously,\u201d GeoEye said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GeoEye-1, launched in September 2008, is GeoEye\u2019s principal asset. The company said that the malfunction will not impact its imagery delivery to the <strong>U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency<\/strong> \u2014 GeoEye\u2019s largest customer.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">GeoEye Vice President Outlines Imagery Sector s Leading Role in Afghanistan<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 2, 2009<br \/>\n[12-01-09] As U.S. President Barack Obama announces his strategy to increase U.S. military presence in Afghanistan while focusing on optimized battlefield intelligence networks, the commercial satellite imagery sector, which has\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">GeoEye Revenue Surges 123 Percent; Profits Drop Due to Loss of Tax Break<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 12, 2009<br \/>\n[11-11-09] GeoEye produced a 123 percent revenue increase in its 2009 third quarter to $79.9 million, according to its latest financial results, posted Nov. 9. Third quarter revenues, up from $35.8 million in 2008, were boosted\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">GeoEye Acquires $249.5 Million in Debt Financing<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 30, 2009<br \/>\n[09-30-09] GeoEye has received $249.5 million in funding as a result of its 2012 senior note sale offered Sept. 21, the company announced. The funding is a portion of the total capital investment that GeoEye has been seeking in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-18-09] The GeoEye-1 satellite experienced an irregularity in its antenna, which will impact GeoEye\u2019s 2010 revenues by as much as 10 percent and may affect its business with ground station downlink contracts overseas, the company announced in a Dec. 17 conference call. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In November, the Dulles, Va.-based imagery company had projected 2010 revenues of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87754"}],"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=87754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87941,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87754\/revisions\/87941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}