Imagery and Sensing

Satellite–based global wildfire monitoring company OroraTech will host its first payload on a Spire 6U nanosatellite scheduled for launch in December. Spire, a space-based data and analytics service provider, announced...

BlackSky Holdings owns and operates its own satellites for geospatial imagery collection, but CEO Brian O’Toole sees the company as more of a software company. Its satellite imagery is brought...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) as a strategic-level member, the organization announced April 5. AWS is the 27th strategic-level member of USGIF...

NASA awarded $6 million phase-A study contracts to L3Harris Technologies and Raytheon to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Imager (GXI) program. Both...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has won a deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build and operate ‘HydroGNSS’ — the agency’s second Scout Earth Observation small satellite mission....

The U.S. Army has awarded Maxar Technologies a geospatial intelligence support contract worth as much as $48.3 million, the company announced Monday.  The award is a Small Business Innovation Research...

Tokyo-based Axelspace has expanded its agreement with KSAT in the area of satellite imagery applications. The two companies are expanding an existing partnership on global ground network support to include...

Zacatecas Silver Corp. is using high-resolution satellite imagery to conduct resource estimates at the Panuco Silver Deposit in Zacatecas State, Mexico. The company announced March 26 that it acquired its...

  Space startup Pixxel has closed a $7.3M seed funding round and announced plans on Wednesday to build a constellation of hyperspectral small satellites. Omnivore VC and Techstars participated in...

Capella Space has hired Dan Getman as the new vice president of Product, the company announced March 12. Getman joins Capella Space from Descartes Labs, where he was director of...