Imagery and Sensing

Planet and Orbital Insight, a geospatial analytics provider, entered a multi-year contract for Orbital Insight to source daily, global satellite imagery from Planet. The contract is an expansion of their previous...

Geospatial analytics provider Orbital Insight has made its first acquisition – a privately-held, Boston-based artificial intelligence company, FeatureX. Founded by serial entrepreneur and machine-learning expert Gil Syswerda, FeatureX specializes in...

The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) PSLV launcher has successfully placed the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)-built NovaSAR-1 radar imaging satellite into orbit. NovaSAR-1, which carries an S-band synthetic aperture...

Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has contracted the Airbus-developed Starling satellite monitoring service to prevent losses in its palm oil supply chain due to deforestation. Airbus will...

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, signed a multi-million dollar contract with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) for a one-year maritime surveillance program that includes the delivery of synthetic...

Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company, and TellusLabs, a satellite imagery and machine learning company, are partnering to jointly offer agricultural intelligence products revealing insight on the world’s food supply,...

DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, received a renewal award for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global EGD) contract from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Global EGD provides U.S. government...

PlanetWatchers developed a new multi-source Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) platform that utilizes multiple SAR sources to deliver actionable insights without the usual delays due to weather, time of day, and...

Radiant Earth Foundation (formerly known as Radiant.Earth) will release a new, open Earth imagery platform, to change the way humanitarian aid workers, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and others use satellite images...

The integration of Sentinel-6A, the first of two satellites to continue measuring sea levels from 2020, has reached a new milestone and its critical phase: the propulsion module has been...