NASA extended its blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Planet, placing multiple orders totaling $18.5 million through 2024, Planet announced Friday.  The BPA is part of NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program. Planet has worked with the space agency through CSDA since it was a pilot program in 2018.  Through the program, federally funded researchers…

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) will invest a further 65 million pounds ($79.1 million) of funding for innovations that could boost U.K. leadership in space technologies and applications. The latest investment was announced Sept. 28. The first tranche of up to 34 million pounds ($41.4 million) funding is open to proposals that will drive innovation,…

Xage Security on Wednesday said it has received a $17 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to provide a cybersecurity platform to protect the service’s ground and space-based systems and to ensure the integrity of data exchanged from the source or network edge to the consumer. Xage, which is based in Palo…

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is looking for more vendors for commercial radio occultation data, according to a recent request for information. NOAA’s Commercial Data Program (CDP) is conducting market research to on-ramp additional vendors to the Radio Occultation Data Buy II (RODB-2) multiple award vendor pool.  The administration currently has two commercial providers…