Imagery and Sensing

GPS startup Zephr raised $3.5 million in a seed round led by Space Capital and First Spark Ventures, the company announced Tuesday. Zephr is working to create a networked GPS...

Maxar Intelligence has named Dan Smoot as CEO, after Maxar Technologies recently split into two businesses — Maxar Space Infrastructure and Maxar Intelligence. The satellite imagery-focused company announced the move...

Earth Observation (EO) satellites have captured meaningful snapshots of our planet for decades, from images of ice caps over a 20-year interval to images of military assets in a war...

Arlula, an Australian start-up company, is to gain further funding from Lockheed Martin Ventures, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. Arlula announced the new investment, Oct. 19. It is the second...

HawkEye 360, which operates a constellation of satellites that sense radio frequency transmissions on Earth, has raised an additional $10 million from Lockheed Martin and company insiders, the company announced...

LOS ANGELES – The business case for space-based remote sensing and other satellite derived technologies has surpassed the traditional military and big-government sectors. Companies and organizations from BP, to the...

BlackSky Technology won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to build an automated target recognition service that can track vehicles in real time from space. The contract announced...

Euroconsult and Iceye are teaming up to lead a new consortium of European space companies conducting a study on a future European Union Earth observation governmental service. The new consortium...

Energy company MAN Energy Solutions (MAN-ES) is a new Spire Global customer, and will use Spire’s AIS and weather data for a marine monitoring tool.  The company has an engineering...

Last month, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) formally ended a commercial radar contract the agency had with PredaSAR, now Terran Orbital, the NRO said on Oct. 2. “PredaSAR did not meet...