Imagery and Sensing

Vantor on Thursday said it received a $5.3 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide automated analytics on real-time changes in Earth’s terrain, helping the agency with its […]

ST Engineering revealed a roadmap for launching a constellation of four synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites on Monday, which it says will provide high-resolution Earth observation coverage […]

LiveEO is to launch a new constellation focusing on critical infrastructure in Germany. The constellation, named Twinspector, aims to enable large-area, high-resolution, three-dimensional observation of the Earth and is specifically designed […]

KSAT has made a significant move in the area of maritime situational awareness. It is launching a new vessel detection service called Vake Powered By KSAT, to monitor areas and […]

Planet Labs has secured an enterprise-scale agreement with the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS) for satellite data to support agriculture, urban planning, and disaster management.  […]

Spire Global has secured a new weather intelligence deal in the energy/utilities sector. AiDash, a provider of vegetation, storm, and ignition risk intelligence and SatelliteFirst grid monitoring solutions, has tapped […]

South Korean aerospace manufacturer LIG Nex1 has selected L3Harris Technologies to provide the imaging payload for the GEO-KOMPSAT-5 weather satellite.  L3Harris will provide its new 18-channel L3Harris GEO-KOMPSAT Meteorological Imager […]

Tomorrow.io announced plans for a new weather monitoring constellation on Thursday called DeepSky, designed to provide faster refresh for global and regional weather models, improve prediction of extreme weather events, […]

Finnish satellite imagery provider Iceye has expanded its work with a customer in the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to ensure Ukraine’s armed forces continue to receive a high volume […]

BlackSky reports it has secured multiple expansion contracts for its Gen-3 satellite program from customers in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Customers who worked with the company for early access […]

Europe is to get a new polar satellite constellation, EPS-Sterna, that could provide up to 30 billion euros ($35 billion) in economic value to Europe over the course of its […]

The Swedish Armed Forces has signed sovereign satellite deals with both Planet Labs and Iceye, with both agreements giving the government access to dedicated satellites.  Planet Labs characterized the agreement […]

Satellogic has signed a seven-figure contract with an unnamed customer for satellite imagery to support high-frequency site monitoring. Under the contract, Satellogic has agreed to provide daily revisit, high-resolution coverage. […]

Revenue for Spire Global was down nearly 56% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025, which the company attributed to divesting its maritime business and the U.S. government shutdown shifting […]

Iceye has teamed up with a major water utility company in the U.K., as it looks to improve its flood and wastewater management capabilities. It is working with Severn Trent, […]

Indonesia is to use satellite technology to monitor and quantify its blue carbon assets, thanks to a new partnership between Kuva Space and WWF-Indonesia. The initiative will use satellite data […]

Two European defense tech firms — Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Germany’s Helsing — plan to build a multi-sensor satellite constellation for intelligence, surveillance, and targeting (IST) capabilities.  Announcing […]

Umbra and Italian company e-GEOS have signed a multi-year strategic agreement to jointly develop geospatial intelligence solutions with the COSMO-SkyMed satellites and Umbra’s constellation.  Both entities operate synthetic aperture radar […]

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Muon Space $44.6 million in funding for an on-orbit prototype demonstration of a dual-use space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) capability.  The funding announced Monday is […]

BlackSky Technology released images on Tuesday from a recently launched Gen-3 satellite, reporting that it delivered images from the satellite less than 24 hours after launch. The image (above) collected by […]

Emirati defense and tech company Edge Group has selected ST Engineering to build a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the UAE’s national SAR constellation program, Sirb. Edge Group subsidiary […]

Montreal-based GHGSat has ordered two additional satellites from SFL Missions for its greenhouse gas monitoring constellation. The two companies have been longtime partners, with SFL Missions building 11 satellites for […]

Iceye has a new satellite imagery tasking product geared toward short notice for critical operations, calling it Tactical Access. It is a subscription tasking product for customers that need tight […]

ABB, a Swedish tech company, has won a contract from the Canadian Space Agency to carry out the conceptual development (Phase A) of the Thin Ice Clouds and Far InfraRed […]

Iceye is strengthening its position in central and Eastern Europe. It is forming a strategic partnership with EMIS, a provider of geospatial information systems in Slovakia, to expand access to […]

Planet Labs on Thursday said it has received its first award under the Luno B contract, a $12.8 million order to provide data analytics for maritime domain awareness. The National […]

Open Cosmos will lead the Spanish component of the Atlantic Constellation, an Earth Observation initiative from Portugal and Spain. The Spanish Space Agency (AEE) and the European Space Agency (ESA) […]

Japanese aerospace and defense company IHI Corporation has signed a procurement contract with Iceye to build four satellites and up to 20 additional satellites in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) […]

Space42 has shipped three synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites — its first satellites to go through assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) within the United Arab Emirates under a partnership with […]

Defense continues to drive momentum in the Earth Observation (EO) satellite market, with industry leaders pointing to demand for sovereign capabilities. Novaspace Principal Annekatrien Debien, recently shared at World Space […]