Imagery and Sensing

BlackSky, a provider of geospatial intelligence, satellite imaging, and global monitoring services, secured a $50 million senior secured loan from Intelsat. The transaction results in an industry first, creating a […]

Orbital Insight completed a $50 million Series D financing. The funding round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Clearvision Ventures, with participation from new investors Invicta Growth, Bunge Ventures, Chevron […]

Italian microsatellite ground segment company Leaf Space has reached an agreement with Pixxel to support the Earth imagery startup’s first 24 satellites, set to launch in July. Pixxel designed its […]

Ursa secured $15 million in Series B funding led by Razor’s Edge Ventures. The Series B financing was joined by strategic investors Citi, New York Ventures, a division of Empire State […]

Iceye signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with RS Metrics to jointly offer to the commodities market the world’s first global Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based iron ore inventories dataset with […]

Digital mapping and imagery company Soar revealed a strategic partnership with the China Siwei Surveying and Mapping Technology, a part of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Soar, which […]

From the ground, the scenes of California’s wildfires are terrifying, but looking down from high above reveals the massive and horrific scale of the blazes. The International Space Station and […]

HawkEye 360 revealed that its RFGeo product can now map an expanded catalog of signals, aiming to address new markets such as border security or anti-poaching efforts. RFGeo identifies and […]

The GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit. The COps system will allow the U.S. Air Force to operationally command and […]

Iceye revealed that its recently developed Spotlight imaging mode is now commercially available to its customers around the world. Iceye Spotlight imaging enables one-meter radar imaging from the company’s satellite […]

Spire Global revealed the company’s first product from Spire Aviation, with the launch of their new AirSafe API. Spire Aviation’s AirSafe product uses Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology […]

Ursa launched China Macro, a new oil storage product for portfolio managers, macro funds, long-term investors and market analysts. Ursa currently uses its satellite radar technology, specifically Synthetic Aperture Radar […]

How important are precision agriculture and global food and water supply monitoring applications to our future? Via Satellite’s On Orbit podcast takes a look at the numbers: The world’s population […]

LeoLabs launched Kiwi Space Radar (KSR) today. As the first commercial radar to track objects in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) smaller than 10 centimeters, the KSR aims to set a new […]

Qualcomm Technologies is teaming up with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to support India’s Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) and Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) in select chipset platforms […]

Maxar Technologies will open a new facility in St. Louis, Missouri, to support growth in several U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) programs. The facility will be located in the Globe […]

EOS Data Analytics (EOS), a space portfolio company of Noosphere Ventures, unveiled EOS SAR — a project to develop its own Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors intended for deployment in […]

Orbcomm, a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, was selected by Pottle’s Transportation to provide its trailer monitoring solution for their dry van fleet. Orbcomm’s […]

The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1. NASA […]

Raytheon‘s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, known as GPS OCX, completed full software and hardware development and entered the system integration and test phase. The milestone keeps GPS OCX, the […]

Ball Aerospace delivered the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) for Landsat 9, completing development of the instrument on schedule and under budget. Ball will continue to support instrument integration and […]

Southwest Research Institute-led The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission entered Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design. The mission is […]

Iceye and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) signed an extended cooperation agreement to provide Near Real-Time (NRT) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data services for government and commercial customers. The newly signed […]

Spire Global received more than $40 million in new funding from strategic partners including ITOCHU, Mitsui, and Scottish Investment Bank and financial investors led by the GPO Fund, Perennial Value […]

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) opened the International Center for Earth Data (ICED) at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. A collaborative project between OMS, the University of Edinburgh, and the […]

Five new remote-sensing satellites were launched on a Long March-11 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert on Thursday at 2:42 p.m. Beijing Time. The […]

UP42, a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, formally launched its commercial data and analytics platform and marketplace. UP42 opens up access for the first time to geodata and processing […]

EOS Earth Observing System, a retailer for remote sensing satellite data, launched its digital agriculture platform — EOS Crop Monitoring — for the North American market. It combines Artificial Intelligence […]

It’s frustrating for environmental scientists to watch politicians mangle and regurgitate climate change data into stump campaign speeches. When Capella Space CEO Payam Banazadeh co-founded the San Francisco-based satellite constellation […]

Thanks to GPS satellite-guided tractors, a single U.S. farmer can now feed 165 people each year, compared to just 10 people a few years earlier, according to U.S. Senator Joni […]