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**Future use (written when the deck was made).** - IKONOS was retired in **March 2015**, but the framing on the slide — "case-by-case natural disasters and land surveillance" — describes the **commercial sub-meter tasking model** that lives on through its successors: - **WorldView-1/2/3/4** (DigitalGlobe / Maxar). - **GeoEye-1** (same operator). - **Pleiades 1A/1B** (Airbus). - **SkySat** (Planet) for 0.5 m daily revisits. - The "launch one, task it on demand, sell imagery by square km" business model that IKONOS pioneered is now an industry.

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