Space Imaging has satellite photos of Afghanistan as well.

By contrast, Space Imaging's satellite cameras can detect only an object with a width of at least one meter, about three feet.

In fact, Space Imaging's main customer now is the Pentagon.

But thus far Space Imaging has had some of its greatest successes providing military-type surveillance for civilian organizations.

Space Imaging, under ideal circumstances, can get a preliminary image out 30 minutes after the shutter snaps.

The payload, Ikonos 1, was also for Space Imaging, and successfully reached orbit.

Space Imaging launched the first successful satellite of the class on Sept. 24, after a similar effort failed in April.

Under the agreement, Space Imaging will receive $1.9 million a month for the access.

The government is the top customer for Space Imaging.

Under most contracts with Space Imaging, the images a customer buys are later archived and sold again to others.