Imagery and Sensing

Aireon has won a new deal in the air traffic market. It will provide its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data for air traffic surveillance in Azerbaijan airspace, as a...

U.S. security in the Arctic will require a range of expanded capabilities including improved domain awareness, positioning and communications, more Coast Guard icebreakers and investing in maritime transportation infrastructure, the...

Rocket Lab launched a satellite on Friday afternoon for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to support the Argos constellation, a network of polar orbiting satellites that collect data on the...

Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites — 20 clusters of three satellites — on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company’s chief growth officer, said this week. The company...

Exobotics is teaming up with Simera Sense, one of Africa’s up and coming space startups, to engineer and integrate a hyperspectral imager into one of their nanosatellite platforms. The two...

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has signed a slew of new study contracts in the commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing arena. The NRO announced the contracts Sept. 28. Companies...

Satellite Vu, one of the up and coming U.K. space companies, has signed a deal with Viasat to use its Real-Time Earth global ground service network to ensure rapid reception...

Satellogic has won a contract to monitor all subnational protected areas on the planet through the new Green+ Jurisdictional Programme, the company announced Sept. 26. The provision of satellite data...

Celestia UK won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop a PNT solution based on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations for 5G networks and applications. The contract, worth 800,000...

The expansion of satellite data from new providers and increased remote sensing technologies is helping climate scientists fill in critical gaps in government-based coverage, and helping to bring the big...