Imagery and Sensing

Virgin Orbit will launch satellites for Spire Global, including three satellites dedicated to the NorthStar Earth & Space space situational awareness (SSA) constellation, in mid-2023.  NorthStar is using Spire’s space...

Iceye is working with partners New Light Technologies (NLT) and Bana Solutions (Bana) to give flood insights to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), covering four recent major flood events....

Mission Space signed an MoU with Sidus Space to partner on space weather intelligence data collection. Luxembourg-based startup Mission space is working to monitor space weather. It will deploy its...

BlackSky Technology received a one-year, follow-on contract worth $10 million to provide an  international ministry of defense customer in Asia. The Tuesday announcement was short on details about the unnamed...

Planet launched a nonprofit program to provide access to the company’s satellite imagery. The program provides access to Planet imagery and support services for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations with the goal...

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) which will see it provide data reception support of the Biomass satellite scheduled for launch in late...

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...