Imagery and Sensing

Iceye, an Earth observation company providing synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, has announced $34 million Series B funding led by return investor True Ventures and supported by Draper Network VC funds...

The twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites, developed and built by Airbus, are closer to continuing the climate record established by the predecessor GRACE mission of 2002–2017,...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Teledyne e2v, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, with the second phase of a €42 million ($47 million USD) contract to produce high-end...

Sener has won a contract to develop the optical bench for the main instrument of the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite Flex, an acronym for Fluorescence Explorer. This is the eighth member...

Orbital ATK successfully launched the company’s Antares rocket carrying its Cygnus spacecraft from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The launch...

UrtheCast has announced that its Earth observation subsidiary Deimos Imaging has entered into a contract with the Brazilian Ministry of Defense’s Aeronautics Command (COMAER) exceeding $2.6 million. The contract requires...

The first Kenya University Nano Satellite Precursor Flight (1KUNS-PF), Kenya’s first satellite, was successfully deployed from the Japan Space Agency (JAXA) KIBO deployment module aboard the International Space Station (ISS). 1KUNS-PF...

Sener will design, manufacture and test devices for the assembly of the Biomass satellite, a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Earth Explorer program. The program’s objective is...

The eruption of Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii triggered a number of gas- and lava-oozing fissures in the East Riff Zone of the volcano. Kilauea has been erupting continuously...

At the SATELLITE 2018 Conference & Exhibition, I joined a panel to discuss Space Situational Awareness (SSA), something that was particularly pertinent given a certain incident that week involving a...