Imagery and Sensing

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 […]

Spire revealed the first product from Spire Weather. Spire’s new maritime weather product, Spire Forecast, will launch today and offer new weather forecasts dedicated to the maritime industry. The product […]

Spire Global revealed that it is now collecting 5,000 Radio Occultation (RO) profiles per day, tripling the global availability of this data. Praised for its accuracy and impact, RO data augments […]

We’ve seen Hurricane Dorian from inside the eye, from satellites and looking down from the International Space Station. A tiny experimental NASA weather satellite has now given us a fascinating […]

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) today released an image and video of the Earth captured from Low-Earth Orbit (LOE) by a commercial grade Raspberry Pi camera and computer on board a Demonstration […]

Airbus completed the ocean satellite Copernicus Sentinel-6A, and is now sending it on its first journey. Its destination is Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the […]

The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Cartosat-3 cartography satellite, originally scheduled to launch in May 2019, will now be launched toward the end of the year in October or early November, according […]

Raytheon has been contracted by The University of New Hampshire to build the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) sensor that will serve as NASA’s first hyperspectral imager in […]

In-soil agriculture analytics company CropX welcomed John Vikupitz to its executive team as president. Vikupitz will help drive the company’s global expansion with a focus on accelerating market adoption of the […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in final preparations to launch the second Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite, nicknamed Magellan, for the U.S. Air Force […]

Capella Space, an information services company that provides on-demand Earth Observation (EO) imagery, is partnering with SpaceNet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating open source, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied research […]

Planet, Salo Sciences, and Vibrant Planet partnered to develop the California Forest Observatory (CFO) — a new platform that aims to dynamically map forest structure and fuel loads down to […]

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) revealed that data received from its payload on the IOD-1 GEMS satellite has proven the commercial viability of the company’s Earth Observation (EO) platform. OMS’ MINIRAD […]

Luokung Technology, a Chinese spatial-temporal big-data processing technology company, revealed a strategic cooperation with the China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application (CRESDA). Luokung will provide cloud services based […]

BAE Systems was awarded a Phase 2 contract to develop Machine Learning (ML) capabilities aimed to help the military gain better awareness of space scenarios for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research […]

Iceye, a provider of small satellite synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) technology, was the first company to achieve better than 1 meter resolution imagery from under-100 kilograms (kg) SAR satellites. The new […]

Spire Global and Kleos Space have entered into an agreement to cooperate on creating enhanced tools for maritime safety. The companies will combine Spire Automatic Identification System (AIS) data with Kleos Radio […]

LeoLabs revealed LeoTrack, a commercial satellite tracking service for smallsat and cubesat operators. LeoTrack, delivered as a web-based subscription, offers satellite operators a range of monitoring capabilities, including precision tracking of […]

Capella Space, an information services company that provides Earth Observation (EO) data on demand, entered into an agreement with Addvalue for use of its Inter-Satellite Data Relay System (IDRS) via Inmarsat‘s […]

A Mishap Investigation Board appointed by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) identified the most likely cause for an instrument issue aboard NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite […]

Several U.S. satellite companies have joined together in protest of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s recently proposed rules and regulations on remote sensing. Executives from Maxar Technologies, Planet, HawkEye 360, […]

LinQuest will provide services as a sub to Peraton, the prime contractor of the Space Exploration Network Services and Evolution (SENSE) contract valued at up to $1.8 billion over the […]

Airbus agreed to a five-year contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MOD) to manage test and reference services to support the delivery and assured release of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, […]

BEI Precision Systems and Space Company delivered the Encoder/Motor Assembly for Raytheon‘s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) J4 payload. “The delivery enables Raytheon to continue the buildout of this […]

Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, has been suffering a major outage since Friday, reports BBC News. The system’s status page currently lists all 22 of its satellites as either […]

Intermap Technologies received a task order for $3.2 million to provide high-resolution terrain elevation models, related imagery, multi-sensor/multi-frequency source data, and feature layer extraction for a government customer. In addition, the company will […]

Spire Global Luxembourg will launch its open source Data Lake. The Spire Data Lake is accessible free of charge to all start-ups, research institutes, and public agencies in Luxembourg. These […]