When did GeoEye begin selling imagery from GeoEye-1?
A. On February 5, 2009, GeoEye officially announced the Start of Commercial Operations for GeoEye-1 and began selling imagery to commercial customers around the world and to our government customers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. On February 20, 2009, the Company announced GeoEye-1 had attained Full Operational Capacity certification from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and met their stringent requirements for quality, accuracy and resolution.