Earth observation sendees provider GeoEye Inc. on Dec. 17 said its principal asset, the GeoEye-1 satellite, has developed a glitch in its antenna-pointing system that could affect the operations of the company's overseas partners but will not diminish GeoEye's ability to serve its biggest customer, the U.S. National Geospatial-Inlelligence Agency (NGA). In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dulles, Va.-based GeoEye said it discovered the problem Dec. 11 and had shut down GeoEye-1 operations "for the last few days" to investigate the issue.
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