Imagery and Sensing

Automotive technology provider Lear has signed Hyundai–Kia America Technical Center (HATCI) as the first development partner in its Exo Technology Partnership Program. The Exo Technology Partnership Program is a collaborative effort...

Maxar Technologies’ WorldView-4 satellite experienced a failure in its control moment gyros (CMGs), preventing the satellite from collecting imagery due to the loss of an axis of stability. Efforts are ongoing in...

Autonomous vehicle software developer Imagry is debuting the latest version of its mapless platform at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES’19) Jan. 8-11. Imagery’s solution uses an approach that requires neither...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) was awarded an United States Air Force (USAF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Hosted Payload Solutions (HOPS) satellite delivery order. The award was on...

On Dec. 27, Russia successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1a rocket at 11:07 a.m. local time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The rocket carried the Kanopus-V-5/6 Earth remote sensing spacecraft along with 26...

SpaceX postponed the Tuesday launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, which would carry the GPS III satellite for the U.S. Air Force. “SpaceX team called a hold due to an...

E-GEOS, a joint venture between Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency, signed a contract with the government of Saint Lucia for setting up an early warning system to support the...

An SRI International cubesat space-weather mission, the Ionospheric Scintillation Explorer (ISX), was launched into space on Dec. 15 as one of the payloads on the most recent Rocket Lab launch. The...

Spire Global’s most recently launched satellites are the first satellites in the world to use Galileo GNSS signals to measure radio occultation (GNSS-RO) profiles in a production capacity for the weather...

Indigo Ag, a company helping farmers sustainably feed the planet, acquired TellusLabs, a company using satellite imaging for developing agricultural insights. Indigo adds TellusLabs’ proprietary platform and staff of experts...