Imagery and Sensing
October 10, 2019
Maxar Technologies will open a new facility in St. Louis, Missouri, to support growth in several U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) programs. The facility will be located in the Globe Building, in downtown St. Louis. Maxar expects 48 employees to initially staff the facility, most of whom are new hires that will support the NGA’s…
October 8, 2019
EOS Data Analytics (EOS), a space portfolio company of Noosphere Ventures, unveiled EOS SAR — a project to develop its own Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors intended for deployment in a constellation of microsatellites. EOS has more than five years of experience in developing data analytics products and cloud services for optical and SAR data…
October 7, 2019
Orbcomm, a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, was selected by Pottle’s Transportation to provide its trailer monitoring solution for their dry van fleet. Orbcomm's end-to-end telematics solution provides wireless connectivity through its hardware and integrated cloud-based analytics platform for fleet management. Pottle’s is using Orbcomm’s trailer monitoring solution, which…
October 4, 2019
The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1. NASA and its mission partners made the decision to end the mission after detecting deterioration in the spacecraft's power system. Jason-2/OSTM, a joint NASA mission with…