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November 2000
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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
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 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.
For detailed information visit www.spaceimaging.com
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