Satellite–based global wildfire monitoring company OroraTech will host its first payload on a Spire 6U nanosatellite scheduled for launch in December. Spire, a space-based data and analytics service provider, announced its new partnership agreement with OroraTech on April 8. Spire's 6U nanosatellite will carry an OroraTech thermal-infrared camera and data processing unit that will be…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) as a strategic-level member, the organization announced April 5. AWS is the 27th strategic-level member of USGIF and joins fellow members The Boeing Company, Maxar Technologies, and L3Harris Technologies. USGIF is a nonprofit educational foundation that works to promote geospatial intelligence and…

NASA awarded $6 million phase-A study contracts to L3Harris Technologies and Raytheon to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Imager (GXI) program. Both companies will provide a definition-phase study of an infrared geostationary imager instrument that is planned to fly on the NOAA's GEO-XO program satellites. The new system…

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has won a deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build and operate ‘HydroGNSS’ — the agency's second Scout Earth Observation small satellite mission. HydroGNSS is a 40 kg satellite that will take measurements of key hydrological climate variables, including soil moisture, freeze thaw state over permafrost, inundation and…