RapidEye

RapidEye AG is a German geo-information service provider, whose support management and decision-making processes based on our own Earth observation images. The company owns a constellation of five satellites, which produce images in 5 meter resolution and MacDonald Dettwiler of ( MDA) of Richmond, Canada have been designed and implemented. Originally from Munich, the company moved in 2004 to the 60 km southwest of Berlin lying Brandenburg an der Havel. In December 2012, the headquarters was moved to the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

History

The RapidEye business concept was designed in 1996 by Kayser- Threde and was born from the ideas of the DLR (German Aerospace Agency), with the question of how to market the commercial remote sensing in Germany. 1998 RapidEye was founded as an independent company in Munich, with seed financing from private investors and the United hail insurance, a German agricultural insurance providers.

2004: The financing of the RapidEye satellite system and the ground segment was made using the European Union, of the state of Brandenburg ( Germany ), a consortium of banks consisting of Commerzbank, EDC ( Export Development Canada) and KfW banking group, backed up. Through a contract with the CCC (Canadian Commercial Corporation ), MacDonald Dettwiler received ( MDA) as the general contractor for the contract to build the RapidEye satellite system. RapidEye moved their business to Brandenburg an der Havel.

2008: In April RapidEye received the ISO 9001:2000 certification by TUV Nord. On 29 August 2008 a Dnepr - 1 rocket was implemented ( a converted intercontinental ballistic missile ), successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, brought which RapidEye's constellation of five earth observation satellites into orbit and of MacDonald Dettwiler ( MDA) of Richmond, Canada was.

2009: After the satellites MPAR - phase had been completed ( consisting of testing and calibration ), they were put into commercial operation in February 2009.

2011: The District Court of Potsdam passes on 30 May 2011, a preliminary insolvency proceedings against the insolvent company.

2011: On 29 August 2011, the Canadian company Iunctus Geomatics took over the RapidEye AG.

2012: On December 18, 2012 RapidEye announced the move on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

2013: The RapidEye AG was renamed on November 6, 2013 Black Bridge AG.

Applications

Agriculture: RapidEye is able to perform at regional and global level agricultural monitoring of fields at regular intervals. The information that can be derived from the images, help farmers to precision farming, agricultural insurers in damage assessment and risk management, or governments in the food supply and supervision of environmental protection.

Forestry: Satellite narrowness support information is increasingly being used by governments and commercial operators, for example, to assess the state of the forest to measure the ecological and economic sustainability of forestry enterprises and to monitor illegal logging and deforestation.

Safety and Civil Protection: Timely shots of crisis areas enable rapid failure analysis, which is essential for crisis management by the authorities and the coordination of rescue forces.

Environmental protection: Satellite images can agencies and organizations provide valuable information to monitor the environmental impact of human influences.

Spatial representation: RapidEye satellite images are used as background for a variety of applications such as cartography, navigation and flight simulation, gaming and as an integral part in geo-specific 3D modeling.

Energy & Infrastructure: The RapidEye constellation can monitor pipelines, Übertragunsnetze and other infrastructure in order to identify problem areas such as intervention in the vegetation, near -standing building, upgrading of roads or leaks. The data can be used for the classification of land cover and land use, to help telecommunications companies in planning their radio network.

RapidEye Constellation

The RapidEye constellation consists of five satellites orbiting on a common sun-synchronous orbit at approximately equal distances from each other in the earth about 630 km altitude. The satellites were brought together on 29 August 2008 by a Dnepr rocket from the Russian launch site Baikonur space.