Imagery and Sensing

LeoLabs, a commercial provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, has agreed to build its next space radar in New Zealand. This establishes New...

Orbital Insight, a provider of geospatial analytics, and RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), formed a global partnership giving RBC Capital...

Capella Space, an aerospace and information services company providing on-demand Earth observation data, closed $19 million Series B funding led by Spark Capital and DCVC (Data Collective) and joined by...

DigitalGlobe has been awarded a contract valued at $3.2 million by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide an unclassified environment with multi-source content for geospatial cloud analytics....

GHGSat, a company providing global emissions monitoring services, raised $10 million in Series A2 financing led by OGCI Climate Investments. Building on GHGSat’s work in detecting and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from...

Arianespace has been selected by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to launch Kompsat-7. Arianespace Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Stephane Israël and KARI President Lim Cheol-Ho signed the Kompsat-7 launch...

E-Geos won an international contract announced by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) in Indonesia, in support of operations at the SAR (Synthetic Radar Aperture) ground station located...

Planet and Orbital Insight, a geospatial analytics provider, entered a multi-year contract for Orbital Insight to source daily, global satellite imagery from Planet. The contract is an expansion of their previous...

Geospatial analytics provider Orbital Insight has made its first acquisition – a privately-held, Boston-based artificial intelligence company, FeatureX. Founded by serial entrepreneur and machine-learning expert Gil Syswerda, FeatureX specializes in...

The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) PSLV launcher has successfully placed the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)-built NovaSAR-1 radar imaging satellite into orbit. NovaSAR-1, which carries an S-band synthetic aperture...