RapidEye Enters the U.S. Government Arena

14 April 2009, 12:07pm

Brandenburg / Havel, Germany, April 14, 2009 – RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate their own satellite constellation, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership
agreement with MakaLani, LLC of Honolulu, Hawaii, to be one of their distributors in the United States. They will be a distributor for RapidEye satellite imagery for the U.S. Governmental market, particularly for the
defense, intelligence community and homeland security.

Wolfgang Biedermann, CEO of RapidEye, commented, “We are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration with Mr. Pires and his team to provide the U.S. Government market with high resolution imagery. The common vision of our partnership will help us to raise awareness in this market and strengthen our global position as a geospatial solutions and data provider.”

Charlie Pires, Chairman and CEO of MakaLani, said, “MakaLani is extremely proud to be the distributor of RapidEye data products in the U.S. Government market. We are sure that this partnership will produce many promising opportunities and a new customer base for RapidEye's data products. The RapidEye system
delivers high quality satellite imagery, and we are convinced that this will also benefit our partnership.”

About MakaLani, LLC
MakaLani, LLC is a subsidiary of HM LLC a Hawaiian owned and operated business certified as a Native Hawaiian Organization (NHO) within the SBA 8(a) program (13CFR124) with over 25 years of government contracting experience.

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