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The first commercial image from the GeoEye-1 satellite was an overhead view of Kutztown University in eastern Pennsylvania. Google is a primary customer for these images and many of them will be integrated into Google Earth and Google Maps.
Track satellites using Google Earth The United States Strategic Command and Analytical Graphics have made available a free database to track in realtime active and dead satellite, and space junk.
The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.
Isro aims to rival Google Earth Adding a feather to its cap, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will launch its own satellite imagery on the internet six months from now, rivalling popular mapping service Google Earth.
Celestron, one of the worlds leading designers and manufacturers of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes and related accessories, announced that it will provide a series of deep space interactive audio tours for use with Sky in Google Earth. Utilizing the award-winning SkyScout Personal Planetariums technology and knowledge base, Celestrons SkyScout Audio Tours enable Sky in Google Earth explorers to embark on an interactive cosmic journey of discovery that includes in-depth information on everything from constellations to supernova explosions to hundreds of millions of stars.