Imagery and Sensing

Emirati defense and tech company Edge Group has selected ST Engineering to build a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the UAE’s national SAR constellation program, Sirb. Edge Group subsidiary...

Montreal-based GHGSat has ordered two additional satellites from SFL Missions for its greenhouse gas monitoring constellation. The two companies have been longtime partners, with SFL Missions building 11 satellites for...

Iceye has a new satellite imagery tasking product geared toward short notice for critical operations, calling it Tactical Access. It is a subscription tasking product for customers that need tight...

ABB, a Swedish tech company, has won a contract from the Canadian Space Agency to carry out the conceptual development (Phase A) of the Thin Ice Clouds and Far InfraRed...

Iceye is strengthening its position in central and Eastern Europe. It is forming a strategic partnership with EMIS, a provider of geospatial information systems in Slovakia, to expand access to...

Planet Labs on Thursday said it has received its first award under the Luno B contract, a $12.8 million order to provide data analytics for maritime domain awareness. The National...

Open Cosmos will lead the Spanish component of the Atlantic Constellation, an Earth Observation initiative from Portugal and Spain. The Spanish Space Agency (AEE) and the European Space Agency (ESA)...

Japanese aerospace and defense company IHI Corporation has signed a procurement contract with Iceye to build four satellites and up to 20 additional satellites in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR)...

Space42 has shipped three synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites — its first satellites to go through assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) within the United Arab Emirates under a partnership with...

Defense continues to drive momentum in the Earth Observation (EO) satellite market, with industry leaders pointing to demand for sovereign capabilities. Novaspace Principal Annekatrien Debien, recently shared at World Space...