The Hindu : Antrix extends deal with Space Imaging

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Thursday, Jan 29, 2004

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Antrix extends deal with Space Imaging

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JAN. 28. Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Department of Space, and Space Imaging Inc., the U.S. based satellite imagery vendor, agreed to extend their exclusive deal to market ISRO's remote sensing data worldwide. K. R. Sridhara Murthi, Executive Director, Antrix, and Robert Dalal, CEO of Space Imaging, signed the agreement here on Tuesday.

Space Imaging would market and sell data from ISRO's latest remote sensing satellite, RESOURCESAT-1, and the forthcoming CARTOSAT-1, worldwide, a Department of Space release said. The Hyderabad based National Remote Sensing Agency will do the same in the country.

Madhavan Nair, ISRO's Chairman said, "ISRO, Antrix and Space Imaging have worked as partners to fulfil India's vision of a global commercial Earth-observation program and the Indian Remote Sensing satellite system has emerged as one of the most high-profile programs in the commercial imaging industry.'' Robert Dalal, CEO, Space Imaging, said in the last eight years, 19 ground stations had been installed to access IRS-1C and IRS-1D.

RESOURCESAT-1 (IRS P6), ISRO's "most advanced'' remote sensing satellite to date was launched in October last onboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). CARTOSAT-1 was scheduled for launch later this year, the release said.

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