Focus: Imagery and Sensing
March 3, 2021
Kleos Space successfully completed a hardware critical design review milestone on the second satellite cluster of the Polar Vigilance Mission (KSF1) and is on track for its mid-year 2021 launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Frankfurt, Germany-based space Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company is under a rideshare contract with Spaceflight Inc. Satellite developer ISISpace conducted…
March 3, 2021
After winning the Telesat deal, Thales Alenia Space has followed up with another major contract worth 772 million euros ($929.8 million) with the European Space Agency (ESA), acting on behalf of the European Union represented by the European Commission. The deal was announced March 3. Thales Alenia Space will provide six satellites as part of…
March 2, 2021
Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provider Iceye has entered into a partnership for a joint offering with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance and insurance. The partnership will combine Iceye’s flood monitoring with Swiss Re's risk knowledge to provide tailored solutions for reinsurance and insurance clients. The strategic partnership will initially…
February 22, 2021
Planet has entered into a satellite imagery data supply agreement with Manna Irrigation, an Israeli smart agriculture company that provides growers around the world with irrigation recommendations, crop monitoring maps, and irrigation planning tools. Manna will incorporate Planet's monitoring and archive system, PlanetScope, into its prediction services for agricultural irrigation. Manna's system is sensor-free and…