National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is looking for more vendors for commercial radio occultation data, according to a recent request for information. NOAA’s Commercial Data Program (CDP) is conducting market research to on-ramp additional vendors to the Radio Occultation Data Buy II (RODB-2) multiple award vendor pool.  The administration currently has two commercial providers…

Space-based telecommunications company Skyloom will provide its Optical Communications Terminal (OCT) to Earth observation firm Satellogic under a new contract announced on Friday. Satellogic will integrate Skyloom's OCT into its satellites and use the terminals to test new methods of EO data delivery through both the SkyCompass-1 geostationary-based (GEO) lasercom network infrastructure Skyloom developed with…

Space-based data, analytics and space services company Spire Global will supply aircraft positional data, as well as data from its Flight Report aggregation platform to Estuaire, an environmental data firm servicing the airline industry, under a new contract announced by the companies on Thursday. Spire's Flight Report platform will give Estuaire access to hundreds of…

SkyFi has launched two new products in the Earth Observation (EO) arena. SkyFi announced details of the two products, Sept. 11. The two products are called Open Data and SkyFi Insights. SkyFi aims to position itself as the geospatial hub for the world. SkyFi offers a web and mobile app that aims to empower users…