SatLease Capital (SLC) has joined the Inmarsat Application and Solution Provider (ASP) Program, an ecosystem for providers of software, hardware and solutions, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in commercial land markets. As an ASP member, SatLease Capital will gain access to Inmarsat’s global L-band satellite connectivity network, ELERA, and worldwide reach to scale its solutions into new […]
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Planet Enters Into An Agreement To Aquire VanderSat
Planet has entered into an agreement to acquire VanderSat, a provider of advanced Earth data and analytics. Under the agreement, Planet is set to acquire VanderSat for approximately $28 million, which consists of $18 million in shares of Class A common stock of Planet Labs PBC, valued at a per share price equal to the […]
Smart Farming Tech Online Training Course Offered By Aquiline Drones
American farms increasingly rely on technology to manage the unpredictable aspects of crop and herd operations. However, many farming tasks are still done manually, wasting valuable time and money. Aquiline Drones (AD) has an immediate solution – Smart Farming with Drones, an online training course. For an introductory price of $99, any drone operator or […]
Impact Investment By SpaceFund Into Hydrosat
SpaceFund has revealed their recent impact investment in Hydrosat. While the company considers almost any investment in opening the Frontier to be an impact investment, Hydrosat fits neatly into the center of what many beyond the space movement consider as a company whose work will have a direct impact on human life. To maximize the […]
ORBCOMM And Farmbot Watch Water Downunder
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC), provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, announced that Farmbot Monitoring Solutions (Farmbot), provider of remote monitoring technology for Australian agriculture, has selected ORBCOMM’s satellite IoT technology to enable their smart agriculture solutions. Farmbot helps farmers improve the visibility and management of their water resources. Farmbot’s solution is powered by ORBCOMM’s global satellite […]
ELERA Global IoT Network From Inmarsat Makes Its Market Entrance
In its second major announcement in two weeks, Inmarsat has unveiled Inmarsat ELERA; a global, narrowband network that is ideally suited to the rapidly evolving world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and for global mobility customers, including aviation, maritime, governments and select enterprises. ELERA builds on Inmarsat’s Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) and will be […]
Axelspace’s AxelGlobe Service With 5-Satellite Constellation Begins June 10
Axelspace Corporation announces that the company will officially start AxelGlobe service with five satellite-constellation on June 10, 2021 (subject to approval by the relevant authorities). AxelGlobe is the next generation Earth Observation platform which Axelspace has been constructing since 2015. AxelGlobe has been providing imagery using one satellite since May 2019 and now became ready […]
Axelspace To Deliver EO Data For Blue Agave + Avocado Plantations In LATAM
Axelspace Corporation has partnered with Gtt NetCorp, Inc. to provide EO data from AxelGlobe to Mexico, Central America, Venezuela and the Caribbean territory. Under this partnership, Axelspace and Gtt NetCorp plan to enhance agriculture and land management monitoring using AxelGlobe data in these regions for agricultural purposes for the Blue Agave (main raw material to […]
Inmarsat’s Clearwater Seafood Agreement For Incorporation Of Fleet Xpress
Inmarsat has signed an agreement with Clearwater Seafood that commits Canada’s largest vessel-operating seafood company to Fleet Xpress high-speed maritime broadband services. Clearwater Seafood chose to install the Fleet Xpress combination of high speed Ka-band and continuous FleetBroadband backup on board seven vessels, replacing the Ku-band services on each vessel. Deployed off Newfoundland and Nova […]
Teledyne e2v’s VNIR-SWIR Detector Supply Contract For CHIME Copernicus Mission
Teledyne e2v, which is a part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, and a Teledyne Technologies [NYSE:TDY] company, announces that they will supply image sensors and detectors to the recently announced grouped proposal of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) industrial policy committee. The agreement is to place six Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions in space. Notably, Teledyne […]