Imagery and Sensing

Planet announced Monday that its hyperspectral satellites with the Carbon Mapper Coalition will have 30-meter resolution and cover more than 400 spectral bands. The company said these hyperspectral Tanager satellites...

PARIS — Defense and intelligence customers for satellite imagery are demanding real-time and more precise imagery and monitoring, multi-sensor datasets, and 3D mapping technologies, Earth observation (EO) operators said Thursday...

Iceye and Satlantis are pursuing an Earth observation (EO) constellation with both synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical imaging. The two European startups announced plans for the four-satellite Tandem4EO constellation...

Spire Global has signed GHGSat as a new customer for its space services segment, and will launch three 16U satellites in 2023 that to GHGSat’s greenhouse gas-monitoring payload. GHGSat currently...

BAE Systems announced plans to launch its own multi-sensor satellite cluster called Azalea for U.K. military intelligence.  Azalea is planned as a cluster of three multi-sensor satellites from BAE Systems...

NASA placed a $1.7 million call order with BlackSky to evaluate the company’s imaging data services for Earth science research. The call order was issued under a five-year Commercial Smallsat...

HawkEye 360 has signed a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to demonstrate its technology to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). The CRADA will explore...

Planet Labs will support operators SES and Telesat as a subcontractor on their space relay projects for NASA. Planet will work with the operators on the Communication Services Project (CSP)...

The European space startup scene is home to a number of companies involved in climate monitoring and mitigating the impacts of climate change. One such company that is looking to...

Iceye is providing the government of Ukraine with its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging capabilities, signing a contract with the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation. As part of the agreement,...