Imagery and Sensing

Planet Labs announced a multi-year, $230 million agreement with an unnamed Asia-Pacific commercial partner to build and deliver a constellation of new Pelican high-resolution satellites. Planet announced the deal on […]

BlackSky Technology won a seven-year contract worth over $100 million with an unnamed, strategic international defense partner for real-time, space-based monitoring capabilities, the company announced Jan. 28. The deal includes […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected 13 companies to provide geospatial intelligence under the Luno B contract, the agency announced Wednesday.  Luno B is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract […]

BlackSky Technology won a one-year extension with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract for its satellite imagery. BlackSky announced the extension on Jan. 14, […]

Talos, a German based space startup signed a new four-year agreement with nonprofit the Max Planck Society to launch ICARUS 2.0, a cubesat constellation for space-based animal tracking. The partnership […]

Dragonfly Aerospace will supply Australian Earth observation company LatConnect 60 with three Chameleon SWIR (shortwave Infrared) imagers for their SWIRSAT satellites, Dragonfly announced Jan. 7. Supported by the Australian Space […]

BlackSky has won multiple contracts for its analytics services through a new pilot program from the U.S. Space Force’s Global Data Marketplace (GDM), the company announced Friday.  The Global Data […]

Maxar Intelligence has received $35 million in total for new tasking contracts from two government customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Maxar said these contracts are the first purchase of direct […]

A new agreement between Maxar Intelligence and Satellogic allows Maxar to task Satellogic’s constellation to support national security missions for the U.S. government and select U.S. partners internationally. The companies […]

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites are to be manufactured in the UAE under a new joint venture between Space42 and Finnish space startup Iceye. The JV announced Dec. 9 builds […]

constellr will play a key role in Germany’s fight against climate change. It has signed a new contract with the German Space Agency DLR to provide the agency’s community in […]

Hyperspectral imaging startup Pixxel secured $24 million in a Series B extension round, adding new investors M&G Catalyst and Glade Brook Capital Partners. The investment announced Monday brings Pixxel’s total […]

Muon Space has received a SpaceWERX contract to advance space-based environmental monitoring capabilities. The award, announced Dec. 5, will support Muon Space’s development of a multi-mission, multispectral electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) instrument.  […]

Saudi Arabia’s Neo Space Group (NSG) is making an acquisition in the Earth observation space, acquiring UP42 from Airbus Defence and Space. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in […]

Open Cosmos won a 35 million euro ($37 million) contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to build three satellites to monitor Earth’s magnetic field in the NanoMagSat mission. The […]

Hungarian telecommunications company 4iG plans to launch Earth observation satellites and a telecommunication satellite in the HUSAT program. In a Nov. 20 announcement, 4iG called HUSAT the “largest privately funded […]

Spire Global plans to sell its maritime business to Kpler in a $241 million deal that will pay off all of the company’s debt.  Kpler is a data and analytics […]

Hungarian architectural firm Paulinyi & Partners is using satellite technology to improve its work in urban planning and says this collaboration can lead to more climate-resistant designs. In late 2023, […]

A new remote sensing startup Matter Intelligence emerged from stealth mode on Wednesday with $12 million in seed funding. The startup aims to capture hyperspectral data of “all matter on […]

NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory awarded Spire Global a contract to develop space-based capabilities for wildfire early detection and active monitoring. Spire announced the award on Tuesday and said the company […]

Umbra has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating its commercial remote sensing capabilities into SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) ordered six more satellites from Thales Alenia Space and 15 satellites from Argotec for the Italian Earth observation IRIDE constellation. IRIDE is an Italian government […]

German wildfire-detection startup OroraTech raised 25 million euros ($27 million) in a Series B funding round to build out its predictive AI capabilities and orbital sensor network. OroraTech announced the […]

EarthDaily Analytics has acquired geospatial intelligence firm Descartes Labs, the company announced Tuesday. EarthDaily Analytics said the acquisition was attractive because of how Descartes Labs products apply geospatial data to […]

Greenhouse gas monitoring nonprofit Carbon Mapper released the first images of emission detection from the Tanager-1 satellite on Thursday, showing methane plumes from energy plants. These first methane detection images […]

BlackSky is expanding into space domain awareness (SDA) with a new contract to support an unnamed customer to deliver non-Earth imaging (NEI). Instead of providing satellite imagery of Earth, BlackSky […]

Planet’s satellite data informs sugarbeet crop monitoring under a new contract between Planet partner SatAgro and American Crystal Sugar Company. Sugarbeet is a root crop with a high concentration of […]

Iceye now has the capability to offer 25 cm resolution for its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The new feature announced Wednesday is called “Dwell Precise” and it is based […]

Planet has released its Forest Carbon Monitoring product, a new quarterly dataset for monitoring forest growth and change. The company said this data will help establish voluntary carbon markets and […]

Maxar Intelligence opened a new London office this week as the headquarters for its international government business as it aims to increase its global presence.  The London office will also […]