Library & Fun Facts

Library

Welcome to the GeoEye 101 Library. For your convenience, we offer the following articles and fact sheets for downloading.

• GeoEye Corporate Overview
• GeoEye-1 Fact Sheet
• Earth Imagery Sources Brochure
• Historical Timeline: Satellite Imagery
• "The Best View Yet From Space," from Popular Science
• "Eye in the Sky: A Visit to GeoEye," from The American Surveyor
• "U.S. CRSSP: Will it Sow the Seeds for Industry Success?" from Earth Imaging Journal

The full GeoEye Resource Library is also available to the public. We invite you to explore! Adobe Reader is required to view PDF files.

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Fun Facts

GeoEye-1 travels 681 kilometers (423 miles) above the Earth's surface, a comparable distance between Washington, D.C. and Boston.

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IKONOS travels 681 kilometers (423 miles) above the Earth's surface, a comparable distance between Rome and Milan.

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At 4,300 pounds, the GeoEye-1 satellite weighs about as much as one mid-size car, four horses, or 300 bowling balls.

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GeoEye-1 is able to image any location on Earth while traveling 17,000 miles per hour.

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Both GeoEye-1 and IKONOS orbit the Earth every 98 minutes, 15 times a day passing over the Equator at 10:30 a.m.

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Satellite imagery is used on the big screen to provide a sense of realism to storytelling. You may have seen GeoEye imagery in such Hollywood movies as The Sum of All Fear’s, Déjà vu, Enemy of the State, X-Men 3, The Kingdom,
The Bourne Ultimatum, and The Green Zone.