Satellite to be rerouted in James Kim search
A commercial satellite-imagery company said
Tuesday it is rerouting one of its satellites to fly over the Oregon wilderness
where rescue crews search for CNET editor James Kim.
A commercial satellite-imagery company said Tuesday it is rerouting one of its satellites to fly over the Oregon wilderness where rescue crews search for CNET editor James Kim.
GeoEye’s Ikonos satellite will fly over the Western seaboard at about 10:30 a.m. PT Wednesday at a distance from the Earth of about 423 miles, said Mark Bender, a spokesman for the Dulles, Va.-based GeoEye. The satellite could record images of an area as large as 2,000 square kilometers.
The cameras on the Ikonos boast a very high resolution, able to get a bead on objects 39 inches wide.
“We can’t see through clouds,” he said. “If it’s cloudy, we wouldn’t be able to get back for three days.”
Bender declined to state what the cost was to the company to “retask” a satellite.
“We’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do,” he said.
Posted: Wed - December 6, 2006 at 08:46 AM