Imagery and Sensing

Planet launched a nonprofit program to provide access to the company’s satellite imagery. The program provides access to Planet imagery and support services for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations with the goal...

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) which will see it provide data reception support of the Biomass satellite scheduled for launch in late...

Aireon has won a new deal in the air traffic market. It will provide its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data for air traffic surveillance in Azerbaijan airspace, as a...

U.S. security in the Arctic will require a range of expanded capabilities including improved domain awareness, positioning and communications, more Coast Guard icebreakers and investing in maritime transportation infrastructure, the...

Rocket Lab launched a satellite on Friday afternoon for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to support the Argos constellation, a network of polar orbiting satellites that collect data on the...

Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites — 20 clusters of three satellites — on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company’s chief growth officer, said this week. The company...

Exobotics is teaming up with Simera Sense, one of Africa’s up and coming space startups, to engineer and integrate a hyperspectral imager into one of their nanosatellite platforms. The two...

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has signed a slew of new study contracts in the commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing arena. The NRO announced the contracts Sept. 28. Companies...

Satellite Vu, one of the up and coming U.K. space companies, has signed a deal with Viasat to use its Real-Time Earth global ground service network to ensure rapid reception...

Satellogic has won a contract to monitor all subnational protected areas on the planet through the new Green+ Jurisdictional Programme, the company announced Sept. 26. The provision of satellite data...