founded june 2009 headquarters cambridge canada key people peter mabson president products satellite ais data services and solutions website http exactearth.com exactearth ltd is a publicly traded 1 data services company delivering near real time global location based maritime vessel tracking information utilizing patented satellite ais detection technology . exactearth provides satellite ais data services to commercial markets as well as government customers in canada us australia and across europe . 2 founded in 2009 exactearth is based in cambridge ontario canada . the company is jointly owned by com dev international ltd 3 and hisdesat servicios estrat gicos s.a. 4 contents 1 history 2 satellites 3 projects 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit in 2005 com dev first recognized that the ais messages being transmitted by major ships could potentially be received from space . com dev validated its ais detection capability through aircraft trials in 2007 and launched a nano satellite ev0 in april 2008 . 5 exactearth commenced commercial operations in june 2009 . 6 in september 2010 hisdesat acquired a 27 % equity interest in the company for a cash investment of approximately 15 million with com dev retaining a 73 % equity interest . 7 on june 23 2015 exactearth filed a preliminary prospectus with canadian securities administrators announcing their intentions to launch an ipo . 8 however on november 5 2015 exactearth s largest shareholder com dev announced plans for an acquisition by honeywell with exactearth spinning out into its own publicly traded company . 9 exactearth s prospectus was abandoned . com dev shareholders approved the acquisition on january 21 2016 with each com dev shareholder receiving 0.1977 exactearth stock for every com dev stock held . 10 final court approval of the acquisition came on january 25 2016 . 11 on february 9 2016 exactearth became a publicly traded company trading on the toronto stock exchange with the ticker symbol of xct . 12 satellites edit as of october 2015 exactearth operates a satellite constellation consisting of 9 satellites . 13 on june 8 2015 exactearth announced a partnership with harris corporation to build 58 ais detecting payloads to be launched on board the iridium next satellite constellation . 14 it is expected that this constellation will provide global average revisit times and customer data latency of less than one minute . 15 name satellite catalog number launch date launch vehicle constructor notes canx 6 ev0 32784 28 april 2008 polar satellite launch vehicle retired used for r & d exactview 1 ev1 38709 22 july 2012 soyuz fg surrey satellite technology limited 16 resource sat2 ev2 37387 20 april 2011 polar satellite launch vehicle aprizesat 6 ev6 37793 17 august 2011 dnepr 1 aprizesat 7 ev5r 39416 21 november 2013 dnepr 1 aprizesat 8 ev12 39425 21 november 2013 dnepr 1 aprizesat 9 ev11 40018 19 june 2014 dnepr 1 aprizesat 10 ev13 40019 19 june 2014 dnepr 1 exactview 9 ev9 40936 28 september 2015 polar satellite launch vehicle m3msat ev7 41605 22 june 2016 polar satellite launch vehicle projects edit exactearth satellite ais data was used in security efforts at the 2010 olympics and paralympics . 17 exactearth satellite ais data was used in the ship emission modelling project of the finnish meteorological institute . 18 exactearth satellite ais data aids scanex rdc in identifying illegal shipping within marine protected natural areas . 19 awards edit in 2009 exactearth technology was recognized at the ontario premier s innovation awards for developing a satellite system for their work on satellite ais . 20 references edit exactearth to commence trading today on the toronto stock exchange . retrieved 1 june 2016 . exactearth receives 19.2 m ais data contract from the government of canada . news wire cnw . retrieved 30 september 2014 . european space policy institute . el akabi cenan ; baranes blandina ; hulsroj peter ; et al. eds . yearbook on space policy 2011 2012 space in times of financial crisis . springer . p. 78 . retrieved 20 may 2015 . com dev s exactearth and spain s hisdesat join forces to tackle the space based ais market . retrieved 20 may 2015 . preliminary long form prospectus english . p. 33 . retrieved 6 july 2015 . preliminary long form prospectus english . p. 33 . retrieved 6 july 2015 . preliminary long form prospectus english . p. 33 . retrieved 6 july 2015 . preliminary long form prospectus english . retrieved 6 july 2015 . com dev announces acquisition by honeywell and spinout of exactearth pdf . com dev shareholders approve arrangement with honeywell pdf . com dev receives final court approval of arrangement with honeywell pdf . exactearth to commence trading today on the toronto stock exchange . retrieved 1 june 2016 . the exactview constellation pdf . retrieved 26 may 2015 . exactearth and harris corporation form strategic alliance to provide real time global maritime tracking and information solutions . retrieved 1 june 2016 . the next generation satellite ais constellation provides real time global ship tracking . retrieved 1 june 2016 . ahoy your ship is being tracked from orbit . bbc news . jonathan amos . retrieved 20 july 2012 . exactearth space based ais data makes contribution to security efforts for 2010 olympics and paralympics . news wire cnw . retrieved 9 june 2010 . ship emission modeling pdf . retrieved 19 may 2015 . satellites detect illegal vessels in komandorsky nature reserve . sensors & systems . retrieved 9 october 2013 . ais recognized at ontario premier s innovation awards . exactearth . exactearth . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title exactearth & oldid 727224318 categories companies established in 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 june 2016 at 14 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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