Imagery and Sensing

HawkEye 360 signed an agreement with BlackSky to provide Application Programming Interface (API) access to selected Radio Frequency (RF) data for customers interested in global spectrum monitoring. BlackSky intends to […]

Luokung Technology, a spatial-temporal big-data processing technology company, formed a strategic partnership with LandSpace Technology. The two parties will work together, focusing on satellite remote sensing data applications as the […]

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R Series (GOES-R) ground system contract to Peraton and Harris Corporation. The three-year contract is valued at […]

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) successfully launched its RISAT-2B Earth Observation (EO) satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) on Wednesday. PSLV-C46 lifted-off at 5:30 IST from the First Launch […]

Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies, received the Global Positioning Systems Directorate (GPS-D) security certification from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (USAF SMC) for its […]

HawkEye 360 and maritime risk analytics provider Windward partnered to offer new global insights into maritime domain awareness through their combined capabilities. HawkEye 360 will contribute its Radio Frequency (RF) dataset for […]

HERE Technologies, a mapping and location platform services provider, renewed its satellite imagery contract with Maxar Technologies for the global production of HERE’s in-car navigation maps. Additionally, Maxar won the 2019 Americas […]

China launched a new satellite for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 11:48 p.m. local time Friday. The satellite was launched on a Long […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Harris a three-year, $284 million sole-source extension on the ground segment contract supporting Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) -R Series weather satellites […]

Asia Pacific Satellite (APSI) and ICEYE, a provider of small satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, have signed a memorandum of understanding about working together to support the South Korean […]

Raytheon‘s Global Positioning System (GPS) Next-Generation Operational Control System program, known as GPS OCX, completed final qualification testing of the system’s modernized monitor station receivers, which are now ready to […]

MDA, a Maxar company, was awarded an initial contract value of approximately $30 million (CAD $39 million) with Public Services and Procurement Canada. The initial contract includes the development and […]

CGI signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space to enhance and maintain security software for the Galileo satellite navigation system. Valued at approximately 14 million euros ($15.71 million), the contract will […]

Spire Global will provide Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) data for BAE Systems’ Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP) software. BAE Systems will include Spire’s data in its GXP software solutions, which offers geospatial […]

Capella Space, an information services company providing Earth Observation (EO) data on demand, will provision the first phase of its small satellite constellation with attitude control systems from Blue Canyon […]

Airbus Defense and Space and Orbital Insight have expanded upon their partnership agreement to create Earth Monitor, a change analysis and insights service which provides situation awareness over archived or […]

Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD), Toyota’s automated driving software development company, Maxar Technologies, and NTT DATA will collaborate on a proof of concept to build automated High-Definition (HD) maps for autonomous vehicles […]

The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $6 million contract to rapidly prototype and deploy Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to augment a wide variety of Enterprise […]

Farmers Edge released an app-based in-field intelligence tool. Digitally linking growers, dealers, retailers, trusted advisors, and other stakeholders, the In-Cab Tool aims to provide visibility of every field activity while simplifying […]

U.K. energy company E.ON is an example of the new type of potential customer the satellite industry can target. The company has been using an innovative approach towards satellite as it […]

Slingshot Aerospace, an analytics company, raised $5 million in new seed funding. The round was led by ATX Venture Partners with participation from new investor Revolution’s Rise of the Rest […]

The Satellite Navigation (SatNav) market has seen tremendous growth in recent years with our constantly-connected, Google Maps-driven society contributing to a huge increase in the number of devices connected to navigation […]

Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency (RF) Reconnaissance data provider, has moved towards commercialization of its global maritime geolocation Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) products with the launch of a new website with pre-order […]

Satellite data analytics firm Spire Maritime has entered into a strategic technology partnership with AXSMarine to provide enhanced maritime intelligence services for chartering and commodity markets, the companies announced April 12. […]

Airbus Defense and Space has entered into a partnership with Bayer subsidiary The Climate Corp., to deliver its satellite-produced imagery to farmers through Climate Corp.’s Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform, the […]

HawkEye 360 launched RFGeo, a first-of-its-kind radio frequency (RF) signal mapping product. RFGeo uses the data generated by the HawkEye Constellation of space-based Radio Frequency (RF) sensing satellites to identify […]

Hughes Network Systems was awarded a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) by the U.S. Army for the third phase of the Blue Force Tracking (BFT-3) program. Under the agreement, […]

Maxar Technologies revealed that Vulcan signed a multi-year EarthWatch subscription, a cloud-based product for viewing, streaming, and downloading Maxar’s geospatial data. Vulcan will use this product for projects including detecting […]

Trimble launched Farmer Core, a new entry-level Trimble Agriculture (Ag) Software subscription that helps enable farmers to connect all aspects of their farm operation. Available online and on any mobile device, […]

GHGSat, a private company which owns and operates a satellite for monitoring Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from industrial sources, revealed that its second satellite will be known as Iris. The […]