Imagery and Sensing

Maxar Intelligence has a new software offering called Raptor that uses the company’s 3D terrain data to allow autonomous drones to navigate environments without GPS.  Maxar announced Raptor on Tuesday,...

Planet Labs signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance to support the Greek National SmallSat Program, Planet announced on...

Planet Labs released first light images from its Pelican-2 satellite of the Port of Laem Chabang in Eastern Thailand on Friday.  The Pelican-2 images were captured on March 12, after...

Juvare and Iceye announced a partnership on Thursday to provide situational awareness and insights to emergency management agencies, insurers, and government organizations worldwide.  Iceye’s satellite solutions will be integrated into...

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded SSC expanded satellite ground station contracts to support the Copernicus program, the company announced Wednesday.  These new contracts add SSC’s Punta Arenas Satellite Station...

Spire Global introduced two AI weather models: AI-WX and AI-S2S, developed on the Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 platform, Spire announced on March 18. These models utilize Spire’s satellite data...

Pixxel’s three Firefly hyperspectral satellites have successfully captured and downlinked their ‘first light’ images, the company announced on March 18. Launched in January 2025 on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission, the three...

Planet Labs will work with Anthropic to utilize the company’s large language model Claude for analyzing Earth observation data, Planet announced on March 6.  The partnership will combine Planet’s daily...

BlackSky Technology shared the first images from the company’s first Gen-3 satellite which launched on Feb. 18.  BlackSky shared two very high-resolution images on Tuesday, one collected over the Sydney...

BlackSky Technology on Tuesday said that it won a “multimillion dollar” contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to manage and operate one of the company’s Generation-3 Earth imaging satellites...