14 DAY TRIAL // Officials at Lockheed Martin announced yesterday, October 25, that they will begin integrating the GeoEye-2 satellite later this month, at its Sunnyvale, California-based facility. This spacecraft is one of the first next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellites.
GeoEye-2 will be mated with its integrated propulsion system, marking another significant milestone in the development of the spacecraft. Lockheed announces that it is currently on time with constructing the vehicle.
Both the integrated satellite structure and the propulsion system are essential parts of the spacecraft, whose goal is to ensure that GeoEye-2 arrives safely in its intended, Sun-synchronous orbit.
“The completion of the propulsion system installation and the start of vehicle integration is a critical step forward in maintaining GeoEye-2’s schedule of on-orbit operations in 2013,” Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company GeoEye-2 program director Allen Anderson says.