Imagery and Sensing

Terran Orbital has formed a new business division, the Optical Solutions Group (OSG) focused on electro-optical (EO) satellite imaging products. The new group has been tasked with developing new space-based […]

SpaceX is venturing into Earth observation (EO) and hosted payloads for national security use, with a new business line called Starshield. The company added a section to its website for […]

Sidus Space has signed an MoU with yacht design company Capital C for access to its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for maritime monitoring purposes. Capital C is developing a line […]

Satellite Vu has signed a new deal with a Japanese space company, Japan Space Imaging Corporation (JSI) that will see JSI use Satellite Vu’s imagery, products, and services to expand […]

Insurtech company Betterview signed a deal to add Iceye’s satellite data into the third-party marketplace in its Property Intelligence & Risk Management Platform. Betterview helps insurers identify and manage property […]

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has doubled the ceiling value of a contract for analytics to monitor economic impacts. NGA announced this week it is raising the value of […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has issued a solicitation for the commercial provision of hyperspectral imagery. NRO Director Chris Scolese announced the new NRO effort during a Nov. 15 Leadership […]

United Launch Alliance lifted a weather forecasting satellite to orbit on Thursday morning for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA.  The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 launched […]

Airline JetBlue has selected Tomorrow.io as its end-to-end weather forecasting technology for global operations, after a process to evaluate weather and climate solutions.  Tomorrow.io and JetBlue have been working together […]

Airbus HAPS Connectivity Business has signed a letter of intent with Japan’s Space Compass to serve the Japanese market with mobile connectivity and Earth observation with the Zephyr HAPS platform. […]

Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective will now distribute its SAR solutions in North America, through a new distribution partnership with Frontier Precision.  Frontier Precision, based in North Dakota, […]

Maxar Technologies on Thursday said it acquired Wovenware, which specializes in artificial intelligence and software developing, and will make the Puerto Rico-based company one of its software development and AI/machine learning […]

RESTON, VA — The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is close to finishing a request for proposals to acquire commercial hyperspectral satellite data and hopes to release an RFP by the […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Spire Global a contract to design a satellite to carry sensors to measure the ionosphere. The contract is part of DARPA’s Ouija […]

Virgin Orbit will launch satellites for Spire Global, including three satellites dedicated to the NorthStar Earth & Space space situational awareness (SSA) constellation, in mid-2023.  NorthStar is using Spire’s space […]

Iceye is working with partners New Light Technologies (NLT) and Bana Solutions (Bana) to give flood insights to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), covering four recent major flood events. […]

Mission Space signed an MoU with Sidus Space to partner on space weather intelligence data collection. Luxembourg-based startup Mission space is working to monitor space weather. It will deploy its […]

BlackSky Technology received a one-year, follow-on contract worth $10 million to provide an  international ministry of defense customer in Asia. The Tuesday announcement was short on details about the unnamed […]

Planet launched a nonprofit program to provide access to the company’s satellite imagery. The program provides access to Planet imagery and support services for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations with the goal […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) which will see it provide data reception support of the Biomass satellite scheduled for launch in late […]

Aireon has won a new deal in the air traffic market. It will provide its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data for air traffic surveillance in Azerbaijan airspace, as a […]

U.S. security in the Arctic will require a range of expanded capabilities including improved domain awareness, positioning and communications, more Coast Guard icebreakers and investing in maritime transportation infrastructure, the […]

Rocket Lab launched a satellite on Friday afternoon for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to support the Argos constellation, a network of polar orbiting satellites that collect data on the […]

Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites — 20 clusters of three satellites — on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company’s chief growth officer, said this week. The company […]

Exobotics is teaming up with Simera Sense, one of Africa’s up and coming space startups, to engineer and integrate a hyperspectral imager into one of their nanosatellite platforms. The two […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has signed a slew of new study contracts in the commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing arena. The NRO announced the contracts Sept. 28. Companies […]

Satellite Vu, one of the up and coming U.K. space companies, has signed a deal with Viasat to use its Real-Time Earth global ground service network to ensure rapid reception […]

Satellogic has won a contract to monitor all subnational protected areas on the planet through the new Green+ Jurisdictional Programme, the company announced Sept. 26. The provision of satellite data […]

Celestia UK won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop a PNT solution based on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations for 5G networks and applications. The contract, worth 800,000 […]

The National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) is funding nine awards totaling $13.8 million to industry and federal agencies to produce new concepts for instrument technologies, ground systems and other […]