Capella Space has launched its Open Data Program to make its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data publicly accessible, the company announced Tuesday.  This program makes SAR data — which can see through clouds and darkness — available to researchers, nonprofits, developers and disaster response organizations. The available dataset is 60 scenes, representing every continent and…

The National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) has awarded Spire Global a six-month contract for commercial weather data. Spire announced Tuesday that this order represents the largest volume of commercial weather data purchased to date by NOAA under the Commercial Weather Data Buy Program. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Spire will provide…

NASA has selected Ball Aerospace for two studies that will look at instrument architectures and designs for the next generation of Landsat. The Landsat program is a joint program between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The studies are part of the Landsat ext architecture series and will explore constellation satellite concept and single…

NorthStar Earth & Space has received “approval in principle” from Canadian authorities for its planned 52-satellite constellation for Earth Observation (EO) uses.  The company announced Tuesday that it has received approval from the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to use its requested Ka-band and X-band radio-frequency ranges. The ISED approval in principle confirms…