Imagery and Sensing

Planet Labs Germany has won a significant new contract with a major government in Europe. The Greek government has signed a 2-year, 7-figure agreement with Planet that will include numerous […]

AI is entering a different phase in Earth Observation. What began as experimentation on curated datasets is now moving into operational use, where models are expected to keep working across […]

AURORA, Colo. — To ensure the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is postured to meet rapidly evolving threat and warfighters’ needs, is resilient and exploits emerging technologies, the agency’s new director […]

Commercial satellite operator and spatial intelligence provider Vantor on Thursday introduced two new classes of electro-optical imaging satellites that packaged together offer its customers high-resolution imagery and frequent revisit rates around the […]

Italy and Argentina are to continue their collaboration in the space data arena. e-GEOS, a joint venture between the Italian Space Agency and Telespazio, has signed a multi-year co-operation deal with […]

Planet recently performed AI-driven object detection directly onboard a Pelican-4 satellite, using the satellite’s onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin module.  Planet shared details on Tuesday of the recent tech milestone. On […]

On a dark, clouded night, a Russian ballistic missile submarine departs a naval base in the Arctic. A small vessel navigates the Mediterranean Sea at 15 miles per hour. A […]

Satellogic detailed plans for its next-generation ‘Merlin’ satellites, designed to provide one-meter resolution. The company said that Merlin will be differentiated by its ability to provide daily mapping of the […]

German tech startup Airmo has raised €5 million (~$5.8 million) in its seed round of funding, the company announced on Thursday. Airmo markets a proprietary sensor for detecting methane leaks […]

BlackSky has won a seven-figure renewal deal with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). It has secured this award under the company’s NGA Luno A Facility Monitoring Delivery Order. According […]

HawkEye 360 has raised a further $23 million to its Series E funding round, with participation from new investors Ghisallo, Principia Growth, and Sixty Degree Capital. Existing investor Strategic Development […]

BlackSky’s 2025 financial performance was a mixed bag, with an increase in fourth quarter revenue and a 32% increase in backlog, despite an increase in the company’s net loss and […]

Germany and Luxembourg-based sensing company Airmo will partner with satellite manufacturer EnduroSat to put its methane emissions monitoring technology into orbit, with the first satellite of a projected 12-satellite constellation […]

Japanese satellite imagery providers Axelspace and Synspective finalized agreements with SKY Perfect JSAT, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi Electric to provide optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery respectively to the Japan […]

Loft Orbital is partnering with SmartSat Cooperative Research Center to demonstrate an AI-powered wildfire detection software on its satellites, the hosted payload operator announced on Wednesday. The mission is meant […]

BlackSky Technology announced a deal with an unnamed international customer for a dedicated Gen-3 satellite, along with BlackSky’s imagery and analytics services. The deal announced Tuesday will give BlackSky’s international […]

Planet Labs’ German subsidiary is partnering with a new arm of insurance firm AXA to integrate its Earth Observation data into an AI-powered risk management system to monitor and predict […]

Software startup The Compression Company announced a $3.4 million pre-seed round of financing, led by veteran venture capital firm Long Journey, on Thursday. The Compression Company is focused on AI-driven […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Tuesday said it has awarded contracts to HEO, SatVu and Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) to provide commercial satellite-based remote sensing capabilities, marking the first of three tranches of awards […]

Sidus Space is teaming up with Simera Sense to develop next‑generation hyperspectral imaging solutions incorporating onboard data processing and analytics. The aim is to enable commercially deployable, intelligence‑driven Earth Observation […]

Vantor on Thursday said it received a $5.3 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide automated analytics on real-time changes in Earth’s terrain, helping the agency with its […]

ST Engineering revealed a roadmap for launching a constellation of four synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites on Monday, which it says will provide high-resolution Earth observation coverage […]

LiveEO is to launch a new constellation focusing on critical infrastructure in Germany. The constellation, named Twinspector, aims to enable large-area, high-resolution, three-dimensional observation of the Earth and is specifically designed […]

KSAT has made a significant move in the area of maritime situational awareness. It is launching a new vessel detection service called Vake Powered By KSAT, to monitor areas and […]

Planet Labs has secured an enterprise-scale agreement with the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS) for satellite data to support agriculture, urban planning, and disaster management.  […]

Spire Global has secured a new weather intelligence deal in the energy/utilities sector. AiDash, a provider of vegetation, storm, and ignition risk intelligence and SatelliteFirst grid monitoring solutions, has tapped […]

South Korean aerospace manufacturer LIG Nex1 has selected L3Harris Technologies to provide the imaging payload for the GEO-KOMPSAT-5 weather satellite.  L3Harris will provide its new 18-channel L3Harris GEO-KOMPSAT Meteorological Imager […]

Tomorrow.io announced plans for a new weather monitoring constellation on Thursday called DeepSky, designed to provide faster refresh for global and regional weather models, improve prediction of extreme weather events, […]

Finnish satellite imagery provider Iceye has expanded its work with a customer in the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to ensure Ukraine’s armed forces continue to receive a high volume […]

BlackSky reports it has secured multiple expansion contracts for its Gen-3 satellite program from customers in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Customers who worked with the company for early access […]