Space Based Imaging Solutions - Government

Lunar Orbiters
To map the Moon's surface, NASA's five Lunar Orbiters each carried an ITT camera and photographic laboratory.

Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong took extreme close-up pictures of the lunar soil with a unique stereoscopic camera built by ITT in record time.

GPS Navigation
For more than 30 years, ITT has been designing, developing, integrating and manufacturing navigation payloads for the highly successful Department of Defense NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. Our payloads have been on every GPS satellite ever launched.

Meteorological Systems
For over 50 years, ITT has supplied multi-spectral Imagers and Sounders to the Nation’s civil and military weather forecasting services. ITT systems are deployed as operational assets, providing 24/7 coverage from geostationary and low earth orbit.

Hubble Space Telescope
ITT fabricated Hubble's back-up mirror — an exercise in optical perfection.

Chandra X-ray Observatory
ITT designed and built the high-resolution telescope for Chandra, NASA's space-based x-ray observatory.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, ITT will integrate and test the optical telescope on board the JWST that is scheduled to launch in 2010.

Space Based Imaging Solutions - Commercial

IKONOS Satellite
ITT designed and built the landmark digital camera system for IKONOS — a commercial remote satellite owned by Space Imaging, Inc. The September 1999 launch of the IKONOS Satellite marked the beginning of the long-awaited era of commercial one-meter-resolution, Earth imaging.

QUICKBIRD Satellite
In 2001, DigitalGlobe launched it's QUICKBIRD Satellite, one of the first commercial Remote Sensing satellites capable of gathering sub-meter resolution earthimages. On board is a sensor subsystem designed and built by ITT that can capture 0.61-meter resolution panchromatic imagery and 2.4-meter multispectral imagery.

WorldView and OrbView-5 Satellites
Space Systems is developing the imaging systems, or "eyes" of the satellites. Part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's NextView program, WorldView is expected to be providing imagery in 2006, and OrbView-5 in 2007.

Ground-based Imaging Systems

W.M. Keck Observatory
When traditional polishing techniques couldn't shape the Keck's primary mirrors to specifications, project officials turned to ITT.

Hobby-Eberly Telescope
ITT opticians fabricated the Hobby-Eberly Telescope's primary mirrors on a short production schedule, and at low cost.

South African Large Telescope (SALT)
ITT recently started work on a spectroscopic telescope nearly identical to Hobby Eberly in South Africa — the South African Large Telescope (SALT).

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