Focus: Imagery and Sensing
January 23, 2020
This year, Capella Space is making the transition from building its technology and business case to commercial operations, as it begins to launch its constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. The San Francisco-based company aims to offer hourly coverage of every point on Earth, rendered in sub-meter resolution, and to help customers interpret that…
January 23, 2020
The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Russia's Roscosmos State Corporation have agreed to expand the joint orbital group of satellites involved in remote sensing of Earth, according to the Belarusian Telegraph Agency. The two entities will add two Russian satellites Canopus-B and Canopus-B-IK to bring the orbital group to seven satellites. Also, the…
January 22, 2020
Descartes Labs, a New Mexico-based geospatial analytics company has deployed Descartes Labs Platform, calling it the industry’s first-ever cloud-based geospatial analytics platform. The platform provides enterprises with a real-time geospatial data catalog and flexible modeling. The company says the platform removes barriers to geospatial data science, and opens up possibilities for organizations to add artificial…
January 21, 2020
Capella Space unveiled on Tuesday the features of its "Sequoia" Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite designed for on-demand Earth observation. The satellite is a re-engineering of Capella’s test satellite Denali, which was launched in December 2018. Sequoia’s features include: A 3.5 meter deployed mesh-based reflector antenna combined with a high power RADAR to deliver high…