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SpatialNews Press Release
IKONOS Satellite Recognized by Popular Science Magazine
in Annual "Best of What's New" Issue
Popular Science Presents Space Imaging with Top Award in Aviation & Space
Category
DENVER, November 9, 2000 - Space Imaging today announced that its IKONOS
satellite has received the coveted "Best of What's New" Grand Award in the
Aviation & Space category from Popular Science magazine. This award is being
presented at a special ceremony at Tavern on the Green restaurant in New
York City's Central Park today.
Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite was chosen as a winner from thousands of
new product and technology developments reviewed by Popular Science editors
over the past year. From these many technological developments, 100 are
selected for a "Best of What's New" award in 10 different categories. In
addition to being one of the top 100 technologies overall, IKONOS was chosen
to receive the Grand Award in the Aviation and Space category.
"Space Imaging is honored to have been chosen to receive this prestigious
award," said John Copple, Space Imaging's CEO. "It's a tribute to our
employees and to our customers who are using satellite imagery to solve
practical business problems. Receiving this recognition from such a
mainstream magazine as Popular Science is testimony that our services and
products are making a difference for those who are using this exciting new
visual information technology."
IKONOS' status as a pioneer in the space industry was the basis for its
selection as a grand award winner. IKONOS is the world's first
high-resolution satellite to offer one-meter commercially available Earth
imagery. Space Imaging began selling imagery taken by IKONOS in January
2000. The 1,600-pound satellite is in a 423-mile high orbit and travels at a
speed of four-miles per second. This imagery has had a positive impact on
the lives of people, businesses and governments in all parts of the world,
and has been used to aid in urban planning, agriculture, mapping, national
security, insurance and risk management, telecommunications, and disaster
response.
"Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite marks a new era in satellite imagery,"
said Cecilia Wessner, editor- in-chief of Popular Science. "Previously,
high-resolution satellites were exclusively the domain of the military, but
IKONOS has opened the door for a variety of new commercial applications.
This is the kind of technological innovation our readers are interested in."
Award winner are featured as the cover story in Popular Science's 13th
annual Best of What's New issue and also on the magazine's Web site at
http://www.popsci.com. Visitors to the Web site will have the opportunity to
choose one of the 100 winners as the Readers' Choice Award, which will be
announced on Jan. 5, 2001.
About Space Imaging
Space Imaging is a leading supplier of visual information products derived
from space imagery and aerial photography. The company launched the world's
first and only one-meter resolution, commercial Earth imaging satellite,
IKONOS, on September 24, 1999. Other CARTERRA(tm) products are produced from
the Indian Remote Sensing satellites, the U.S. Landsat, Canada's RADARSAT
and the European Space Agency's ERS satellites. Space Imaging also delivers
aerial-derived imagery products collected by its own Digital Airborne
Imaging System (DAIS-1(tm)). For detailed information about Space Imaging,
visit http://www.spaceimaging.com.
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