ATI Space Email Newsletter - April/May 1999 


RAYTHEON AWARDED NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY
OMNIBUS GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION & IMAGERY INTELLIGENCE CONTRACT 
 
Raytheon Company has been awarded the National Imagery and Mapping Agency 
(NIMA) OMNIBUS Geospatial Information & Imagery Intelligence contract to 
provide a suite of information products and related services including 
surveying, mapping and charting, imagery intelligence and photogrammetic 
production. The program, awarded to the Garland, Texas based Imagery and 
Geospatial Systems Division of Raytheon Systems Company, is a five-year 
indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract under which delivery orders 
for products and services are issued. The contract is valued
at a potential $600 million over a five-year period. The Raytheon team 
includes Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), TRW, Marconi 
Integrated Systems Inc. and Earth Satellite Corporation.
http://www.raytheon.com/press/1999/apr/nimaobus.html

Attend ATI's Small Remote Sensing Satellites course on June 14-16, 1999 for 
more on remote sensing and imaging.


MOTOROLA WINS CONTRACT TO PROVIDE IRIDIUM PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO U.S. DOD
   
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) of the U.S. Department of
Defense has awarded Motorola Worldwide Information Network Services (M-WINS) 
a contract for the purchase of Iridium satellite portable products and 
related voice and paging services. The contract has a potential value of $219 
million over a three-year period ending Mar. 31, 2002. Motorola will provide 
the service provisioning of the satellite products through its U.S. 
government-dedicated Iridium gateway in Hawaii. 

M-WINS will provide U.S. government agencies with Motorola satellite
portable handsets, satellite pagers, accessories and an annual usage of up to 
28 million airtime minutes.  Secure satellite portable handsets are currently 
under development by Motorola.


LOCKHEED MARTIN ATHENA LAUNCH OF IKONOS SATELLITE EXPERIENCED AN ANOMALY    
 
Lockheed Martin and Space Imaging have not successfully acquired telemetry
signals from the IKONOS 1 satellite following its launch this morning by a 
Lockheed Martin Athena II rocket. The Athena was launched at 11:22 a.m. PDT 
from Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. 
Lockheed Martin Astronautics built the Athena rocket and has begun an 
investigation into the anomaly. Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space built the 
satellite for Denver-based Space Imaging.
http://www.lmco.com/news/articles/042799_1.html


ORBIMAGE LAUNCHES ORBVIEW CITIES
HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGERY PRODUCT LINE

 Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE), an affiliate of Orbital Sciences 
Corporation (NYSE: ORB), today announced the launch of its OrbView Cities 
high-resolution imagery product line, the first online offering in its 
planned series of high-resolution imagery products. Initially, OrbView Cities 
consists of one-meter panchromatic (black and white) imagery of select North 
American cities. The cities now available in one-meter imagery include New 
York City, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, Denver, Seattle, 
Vancouver,Toronto, Phoenix, Newark and the Long Island, NY area. The number 
of cities covered will be extended to hundreds of additional urban areas 
worldwide when ORBIMAGE's OrbView-3 and OrbView-4 high-resolution imaging 
satellites are launched later this year and in 2000, respectively.Imagery 
from OrbView Cities is currently available for purchase from ORBIMAGE.com.

Customers can access the easy-to-use ORBIMAGE.com online catalog 
(www.orbimage.com) to browse, preview and order OrbView Cities imagery. All 
OrbView Cities imagery products have been orthorectified (corrected for 
geometric distortions) to be compatible with 1:24,000 scale mapping and are 
available in standard sized tiles compatible with the U.S. Geological Survey 
quadrangle system. http://www.orbital.com/


NASA'S CHANDRA MISSION POSTPONED

NASA's mission to launch the Chandra X-ray telescope was delayed again until
more information can be gathered about possible problems in an upper stage 
rocket motor it will use.  As a result, NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory will 
not fly as planned July 9 aboard shuttle Columbia. Officials couldn't say 
when the mission would occur. The Air Force has impounded an upper-stage 
motor intended for the telescope, to be launched in July aboard space shuttle 
Columbia. It's the same kind of motor that apparently malfunctioned April 9 
and left the Defense Department's newest
Defense Support Program satellite in a useless orbit. The telescope-delivery 
mission already is a year late because of bad circuit boards that had to be 
replaced in Chandra and other problems.

"Caution is the better part of valor in this situation," said NASA spokesman 
Douglas Isbell. "They don't feel like they have enough to go on at this 
point."  Officials want to wait until they have more data in hand on the 
April 9 failure of an Air Force mission launched from Cape Canaveral Air 
Station. 


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