[Satellite TODAY 01-18-10] Telespazio and Lockheed Martin were awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide data, products and services from the Cosmo-SkyMed satellites, Telespazio announced Jan 15. The contract is worth up to $85 million.
    Lockheed Martin and e-GEOS, which is jointly owned by Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency, will provide the NGA with images acquired from the Italian Cosmoe-SkyMed satellites. The imagery then will be used to develop a range of U.S. government applications.
    The Cosmo-SkyMed constellation aims to provide images with a resolution as sharp as 1 meter and has the capacity to record up to 2.4 million square kilometers of imagery per day to be used for security applications, ground surveillance, environmental monitoring and natural resource management by public sector bodies and industry.

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