Imagery and Sensing

Planet Labs has expanded its strategic partnership with AXA Climate to offer insights from Planet’s satellites that inform parametric insurance products for a drought insurance program.  AXA Climate is a...

Spire Global and OroraTech are working together on a Canadian Space Agency contract to monitor wildfires from space via satellite.  The contract is for preparatory work for a wildfire-monitoring satellite,...

New geospatial satellite startup Nuview emerged from stealth mode on Thursday, with plans to build the first commercial LiDAR satellite constellation.  LiDAR — which stands for Light Detection and Ranging...

Spire Global is launching a new weather insights platform for the maritime industry, to deliver analysis with data from the company’s satellites to maritime customers.  Spire can make 15-day global...

Imagery startup Synspective and regional operator Thaicom are partnering to jointly offer synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for disaster response in Thailand.  The two companies announced Tuesday they plan to offer...

BlackSky Technology reseller Telespazio Ibérica plans to offer a rapid emergency imagery service to a regional government in Spain, BlackSky announced on Tuesday. The deal will support the Government of...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—This fall the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) expects to issue its next request for proposals (RFP) under a commercial remote sensing effort for Innovative Commercial Electro-Optical (EO) capabilities,...

L3Harris Technologies will provide Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) next-generation Geostationary (GEO) imaging and sounding instruments to monitor and predict severe weather events. L3Harris has a legacy of providing these space-based weather...

NASA has awarded Capella Space a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for the company’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, NASA announced Monday. This gives NASA five years to order Capella’s data,...

Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space and Spire Global have each received contract options from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to assess on-orbit capabilities under a prior contract the agency awarded the companies for...