Imagery and Sensing

Airbus completed the ocean satellite Copernicus Sentinel-6A, and is now sending it on its first journey. Its destination is Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the...

The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Cartosat-3 cartography satellite, originally scheduled to launch in May 2019, will now be launched toward the end of the year in October or early November, according...

Raytheon has been contracted by The University of New Hampshire to build the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) sensor that will serve as NASA’s first hyperspectral imager in...

In-soil agriculture analytics company CropX welcomed John Vikupitz to its executive team as president. Vikupitz will help drive the company’s global expansion with a focus on accelerating market adoption of the...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in final preparations to launch the second Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite, nicknamed Magellan, for the U.S. Air Force...

Capella Space, an information services company that provides on-demand Earth Observation (EO) imagery, is partnering with SpaceNet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating open source, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied research...

Planet, Salo Sciences, and Vibrant Planet partnered to develop the California Forest Observatory (CFO) — a new platform that aims to dynamically map forest structure and fuel loads down to...

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) revealed that data received from its payload on the IOD-1 GEMS satellite has proven the commercial viability of the company’s Earth Observation (EO) platform. OMS’ MINIRAD...

Luokung Technology, a Chinese spatial-temporal big-data processing technology company, revealed a strategic cooperation with the China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application (CRESDA). Luokung will provide cloud services based...

BAE Systems was awarded a Phase 2 contract to develop Machine Learning (ML) capabilities aimed to help the military gain better awareness of space scenarios for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research...