Imagery and Sensing

HawkEye 360‘s new cluster of satellites has entered commercial service after it was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 30. The trio of satellites, known as Cluster […]

Iceye’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery will be integrated into Europe’s Copernicus imagery program, the company announced with the European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday. Iceye is the first European […]

Planet plans to upgrade its SkySat satellite fleet with a higher resolution constellation called Pelican, the company announced Tuesday during its user conference.  Planet said the better resolution on the […]

ST. LOUIS — A pending solicitation from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to quickly acquire commercial satellite imagery solutions will consist of three stages that will allow the agency to assess […]

ST LOUIS – Competition in commercial remote sensing reached an inflection point in 2016 in the number of satellites on orbit, a number that doubled in 2017, and another milestone […]

Japanese satellite company Synspective has begun a demonstration for a disaster prevention management system in Guatemala. Synspecitve is working with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on this pilot project, […]

ST. LOUIS — The U.S. agency that has spent its 60 years developing exquisite satellite systems to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for government needs said on Thursday it will […]

Climate-focused satellite constellation startup Muon Space has raised a $10 million seed funding round, led by Costanoa Ventures. In addition, Space Capital, Congruent VC, Ubiquity Ventures, South Park Commons, and […]

HySpecIQ has selected BridgeComm‘s high-speed optical downlink for its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, the companies announced Monday.  Bridgecomm said these laser communication downlink terminals and network of optical ground stations […]

Hancom InSpace will launch Korea’s first private satellite for Earth observation in the first half of 2022, the company announced September 29. Once launched, the satellite, Sejong-1, would make Hancom […]

Spire Global has appointed its first ever Vice President of Weather. Dr. Kevin Petty will take on the new role for the company and will oversee Spire’s weather solutions worldwide, […]

HawkEye 360 has received a $10 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), turning a pilot program for commercial Radio Frequency (RF) data into a long-term contract.  Under the […]

Satellogic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have detailed how AWS cloud infrastructure supports Satellogic, in a case study on how the cloud and space work together. Clint Crosier, director of […]

United Launch Alliance successfully launched NASA‘s Landsat 9 mission on Monday, which will monitor the Earth and study the impact of climate change. An Atlas V 401 configuration rocket took […]

Capella Space has launched its Open Data Program to make its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data publicly accessible, the company announced Tuesday.  This program makes SAR data — which can […]

Artificial Intelligence software giant Palantir Technologies has committed to an equity investment in space-based geospatial intelligence company BlackSky once it completes its planned business combination with Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. […]

The National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) has awarded Spire Global a six-month contract for commercial weather data. Spire announced Tuesday that this order represents the largest volume of commercial […]

NASA has selected Ball Aerospace for two studies that will look at instrument architectures and designs for the next generation of Landsat. The Landsat program is a joint program between […]

NorthStar Earth & Space has received “approval in principle” from Canadian authorities for its planned 52-satellite constellation for Earth Observation (EO) uses.  The company announced Tuesday that it has received […]

Maxar Technologies has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to $26.4 million by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to continue supporting its open mapping platform.  Under the agreement […]

Planet and Google Cloud have expanded an existing partnership on data analysis. The companies announced Wednesday an agreement to create joint solutions with Planet satellite imagery and Google Cloud’s cloud-based […]

BlackSky has completed a joint pilot project with Palantir Technologies Inc. integrating BlackSky’s commercial satellite imagery and analytics into the Palantir enterprise platform for defense and intelligence customers.  Palantir is […]

Satellogic has signed a deal to provide satellite data to African geospatial solutions company GeoTerraImage. The data will be used for large-scale agriculture management and to develop new food systems […]

Maxar Technologies has added two new subscribers to its Rapid Access Program (RAP). The National Institute of Aeronautics and Space of Indonesia (LAPAN) and the Colombian Air Force have each […]

e-GEOS, an Italian Space Agency (ASI- 20 percent) and Telespazio (80 percent) company, and ImageSat International (ISI), are partnering to jump into the market with their own new Earth Observation […]

Canadian data processing and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (EDA) says it will start building a new constellation of nine Earth observation satellites this month and plans to have them […]

Montréal-based greenhouse gas satellite monitoring startup GHGSat closed its Series B funding round, netting $45 million from an investment group that included the government of Québec (through its Investissement Québec […]

Spire Global will continue to participate in NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program after signing a $6 million contract extension. Spire announced the contract on July 14.  The CSDA […]

Maxar Technologies has received a $35 million, multi-year contract for capacity on its WorldView Legion satellite constellation with an unnamed international defense and intelligence customer, the company announced July 7. […]

New Space Earth Observation (EO) leader Planet is going public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the company announced July 7. Planet will combine with dMY […]