Orbital Science's (OSC) Orbimage division has won a $40 million contract from the US Air Force to supply high-resolution hyperspectral images from its OrbView 3 satellite. This brings to $125 million the value of contracts for imagery from the Orbview 1 and 2 (right) satellites in orbit and the OrbView 3, to be launched in 1999. The USAF contract is for the Phillips Laboratory's Warfighter 1 advanced-technology demonstration programme, involving the use of 8m-resolution infrared, 1m panchromatic and 4m-resolution multi-spectral digital images. OSC will also be prime contractor for the 17-satellite Ellipso worldwide mobile-communications system.
Source: Flight International