Imagery and Sensing

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) was awarded an United States Air Force (USAF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Hosted Payload Solutions (HOPS) satellite delivery order. The award was on […]

On Dec. 27, Russia successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1a rocket at 11:07 a.m. local time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The rocket carried the Kanopus-V-5/6 Earth remote sensing spacecraft along with 26 […]

SpaceX postponed the Tuesday launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, which would carry the GPS III satellite for the U.S. Air Force. “SpaceX team called a hold due to an […]

E-GEOS, a joint venture between Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency, signed a contract with the government of Saint Lucia for setting up an early warning system to support the […]

An SRI International cubesat space-weather mission, the Ionospheric Scintillation Explorer (ISX), was launched into space on Dec. 15 as one of the payloads on the most recent Rocket Lab launch. The […]

Spire Global’s most recently launched satellites are the first satellites in the world to use Galileo GNSS signals to measure radio occultation (GNSS-RO) profiles in a production capacity for the weather […]

Indigo Ag, a company helping farmers sustainably feed the planet, acquired TellusLabs, a company using satellite imaging for developing agricultural insights. Indigo adds TellusLabs’ proprietary platform and staff of experts […]

Axelspace selected the SKY Perfect JSAT and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) joint ground station service for its GRUS satellite, a commercial Japanese optical Earth observation satellite. The launch of the GRUS-1 satellite is […]

The U.S. Air Force‘s first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite is now encapsulated for its planned Dec. 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon […]

Ball Aerospace and Technologies successfully completed development of an Earth science instrument to measure air pollution over North America, and has been formally accepted by NASA. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring […]

Thales Alenia Space signed two contracts with Korea to develop a constellation of high-resolution observation radar satellites for the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), known as Korea “425 Project.” One contract […]

SpaceX successfully launched Spaceflight‘s SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission on Monday. The payloads were carried on a Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off at 10:34 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force […]

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) is partnering with NanoAvionics, a developer of nanosatellite bus and subsystem technologies, to conduct a rideshare mission to fly one of OMS’ miniaturized passive microwave sensors. […]

The Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI) announced that the nation’s first satellite — a weather monitoring spacecraft — will be launched next year from anunnamed site in China. […]

Arianespace successfully launched the Mohammed VI – B Earth observation satellite on Tuesday at 10:42 p.m. local time from the Guiana Space Center (CSG). The satellite was developed for Morocco by […]

China launched its Shiyan-6 Earth observation satellite, along with four nanosatellites. The satellites were carried on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at […]

CropIn Technology Solutions, an agriculture technology startup, has raised $8 million (INR 58 crores) in a Series B financing from Chiratae Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Strategic […]

China launched two new BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. Liftoff took place […]

NorthStar Earth and Space (NorthStar E&S) received $39.3 million (CA$52 million) in additional financing from strategic partners for the development of NorthStar, a global environment information platform aiming to help society’s […]

DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, completed mapping the Australian continent in high detail using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technology. DigitalGlobe produced data layers for PSMA Australia to create […]

Iceye, an Earth observation company creating a large Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation, is launching the company’s second SAR satellite, ICEYE-X2, into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on Spaceflight‘s SSO-A: SmallSat […]

Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company, was awarded a $2 million contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a team in designing, building, and demonstrating […]

The new generation of connected cars — especially autonomous vehicles — will be a boom market for satellite, says the satellite industry. Not so fast, says the mobile industry. 5G […]

Historically, the motivation behind scientific discovery has been the romanticism of research, and discovery, problem solving. It was — and remains — a noble calling, which at its core relies […]

  Raytheon’s Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) completed a round of testing, preparing the program for its use on the GPS III launch next month. The tests were cybersecurity […]

China launched a BeiDou-3 satellite into Geostationary Orbit (GEO) for the first time, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 41st […]

Harris provided Lockheed Martin with its sixth of ten navigation payloads contracted for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III satellite program. The GPS III navigation payload features a Mission Data Unit […]

  Space engineers have teased images taken in-orbit by the RemoveDebris satellite, marking another successful Active Debris Removal test by the international project. RemoveDebris carried out a test of its […]

MicroDragon, a miniaturized satellite developed by Vietnamese engineers, is scheduled to be launched in December with the assistance of Japan. The launch was announced on October 18 by the Vietnam […]

Arianespace launched a heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket carrying BepiColombo – Europe’s first mission to Mercury, organized in cooperation with Japan – on its way toward the solar system’s smallest and […]