Imagery and Sensing

Planet has won a new contract with one of Germany’s federal agencies. The company announced July 13 that it had signed a contract with the German Federal Agency for Cartography...

Space data and analytics company SatSure is launching a new subsidiary, KaleidEO, to build optical payloads to collect satellite imagery.  SatSure said in a Tuesday announcement that it incubated the...

President Biden on Monday issued a National Security Memorandum (NSM) aimed at combating illegal fishing by distant water fleets in the world’s oceans and directed several departments and agencies to...

MDA is providing Global Fishing Watch access to the company’s Radarsat-2 satellite radar archive to fight illegal fishing practices. MDA announced the agreement on June 28 as part of the...

Iceye is expanding its business to now give governments and large multinational corporations the option to purchase their own radar imaging satellites. As part of the new Missions line of...

Telespazio has signed a new deal with BlackSky which will enable the company to make BlackSky geospatial products and services commercially available to customers world-wide. The non-exclusive reseller agreement was...

NanoAvionics recently sold one of its operational satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), a first for the company. The 6U satellite “D2 / Atlacom-1,” which included a 1U-sized hyperspectral imager for...

Spire Global received a $6 million, year-long extension from NASA for the agency’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Spire announced the extension on June 23.  The CSDA allows NASA...

Energy infrastructure company Energy Transfer has selected Orbital Sidekick to monitor its assets in the Permian Basin with satellite technology. Orbital Sidekick’s hyperspectral monitoring technology will allow Energy Transfer to...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded BlackSky Technologies a contract worth up to $241 million over five years to create and optimize data sets for use in DoD AI...