Imagery and Sensing

Planet announced a new 240 million euro ($283 million) multi-year deal with the German government on Tuesday for satellite imagery and analytics services, which Planet’s leadership pointed to as a...

The Finnish Ministry of Defense is looking to purchase satellites from Iceye for intelligence and surveillance capabilities from space, under a new letter of intent announced June 27.  The letter...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded Maxar Intelligence a delivery order under the Luno A program for commercial analytic services.  Maxar said on June 27 the order specifically deals...

Rocket Lab launched four satellites for HawkEye 360, including three radio frequency (RF) tracking satellites and one experimental satellite.  The mission took place early morning on Friday, June 27 from...

Maxar Intelligence on Wednesday announced a new solution suite that applies artificial intelligence-enabled analytics to geospatial imagery for persistent global monitoring of fixed sites and vessels on the open sea to...

BlackSky Technology has received a potential $24-plus million task order to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) with object detection monitoring of military and economic facilities worldwide. The initial award...

SatVu will support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Luno A & B programs by partnering with five other companies to provide its thermal imagery.  SatVu, based in the United Kingdom,...

A group remote sensing CEOs outlined the risks that come with potential budget cuts to commercial imagery programs in a letter to Congressional leaders.  Iceye U.S. publicly shared the letter on...

BlackSky is planning to expand the capabilities of its Earth Observation (EO) constellation with multispectral, large-area collection satellites called AROS, to launch “as early as 2027.” BlackSky explained the AROS...

Planet has signed a new seven-figure contract with NATO to deliver advanced daily monitoring and intelligence capabilities across NATO’s strategic areas of interest. Planet called it a “landmark partnership” and...