of Lethbridge, Alberta, whose current business includes being Canada's exclusive distributor of French SPOT optical satellite data, provides a wide range of geomatics products and services for its clients, including satellite data, value added imagery, data management/hosting and satellite tasking. is an affiliate of BlackBridge Corporation, a group of companies in geospatial imagery with business partners in over 70 countries. The new company is called RapidEye Canada Ltd. The purchase was finalized on Monday, Augin Potsdam, Germany. 1, 2011 that it had acquired the assets of RapidEye AG of Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, a global provider of high-resolution imagery and geospatial solutions. The Canadian distributor of optical satellite imagery, Iunctus Geomatics Corp., announced on Sept. In this arrangement, MDA is the general contractor for the mission, responsible for the implementation of the space and ground segments, launch and in-orbit commissioning and calibration. In September 2002, RapidEye (known as BlackBridge since November 2013) and MDA of Richmond, BC, Canada, signed a partnership agreement. RapidEye was established as an independent company in December 1998 once the concept had matured enough to receive seed financing from the German Space Agency (DLR) and Vereinigte Hagelversicherung (VH), the largest German agro-insurance company, as well as a few private investors. The overall goal was to provide end-to-end solutions to clients whose geospatial information needs require large-area coverage, repetitive monitoring and frequent revisits. Table 1: Overview of key mission parametersīackground: The RapidEye business concept was initiated in 1996 by Kayser-Threde GmbH of Munich with support from the German Space Agency (DLR). Nominal circular SSO, 630 km altitude, 11:00 hours equator crossing time on descending node The main vertical markets BlackBridge serves are: 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11)Īgile spacecraft with 3-axis control, typical across track off-pointing up to ☒0º, 0.2º (3σ) pointing control accuracy The main objective is to provide a range of Earth-observation products and services to a global user community. It is the first fully commercial operational class Earth observation system using a constellation of 5 satellites that provides unparalleled performance.
The RapidEye constellation represents a major milestone in the Earth observation industry. The two major subcontractors to MDA were SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.) for the spacecraft bus, SCC and spacecraft AIT (Assembly, Integration and Test) services, as well as Jena Optronik GmbH (JOP) who provided the 5-band multispectral imager (RGB, red edge, and near IR bands). MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd) was the mission prime contractor and was responsible for the delivery of the space and ground segments, launch of the constellation, and on-orbit commissioning and camera calibration. The system is owned and operated by BlackBridge.
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RapidEye is a full end-to-end commercial Earth Observation system comprising a constellation of five minisatellites, a dedicated SCC (Spacecraft Control Center), a data downlink ground station service, and a full ground segment designed to plan, acquire and process up to 5 million km 2 of imagery every day to generate unique land information products. Spacecraft Launch Mission Status Sensor Complement Ground Segment References Glacier cover, Earth surface albedo, Vegetation type, Land cover, Land surface imagery, Sea-ice cover, Cloud cover, Snow cover
Snow cover, edge and depth, Vegetation, Albedo and reflectance, Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature, Multi-purpose imagery (land), Sea ice cover, edge and thickness
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