Northrop Grumman was an industry pioneer in the development of spacecraft designed to provide commercial Earth imaging services. The innovative OrbView series of spacecraft paved the way for today's space-based commercial Earth imaging industry.
Our flight-proven LEOStar-2 and -3 spacecraft platforms are designed to support a variety of multispectral, visible and thermal imaging payloads.
Mission History
| GeoEye-1 |
GeoEye |
.41 m panchromatic, 1.65 m multispectral |
9/2008 |
| OrbView-4 |
ORBIMAGE |
1 m panchromatic, 4 m multispectral |
9/2001* |
| OrbView-3 |
ORBIMAGE |
1 m panchromatic, 4 m multispectral |
6/2003 |
| OrbView-2/SeaStar |
ORBIMAGE |
1 km, 4 km multispectral (visble & near IR) |
8/1997 |
| OrbView-1/MicroLab-1 |
ORBIMAGE |
Broad area (lightning data) |
4/1995 |
| Earlybird-1 |
Earthwatch |
3 m panchromatic, 15 km multispectral |
12/1997** |