Valued at billions of dollars over the next decade, these contracts mark a historic expansion of the NRO’s acquisition of commercial imagery to meet increasing customer demands with greater capacity than ever before. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) today announced the results of its largest-ever commercial imagery contract effort, awarding Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contracts […]
Data Management
L3Harris Selected for Key Department of Defense Artificial Intelligence Program
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Data Readiness for AI Development contract is a five-year blanket purchase agreement that allows the DOD to more effectively use artificial intelligence. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to deliver artificial intelligence services to improve intelligence gathering and collaboration across the defense and […]
UP42 And Airbus’ Copernicus Masters Challenge For Sustainable Urban Planning
This prestigious Earth Observation (EO) annual competition, Copernicus Masters, seeks to develop innovative applications of remotely sensed data that address Earth’s ongoing environmental, social, and business challenges. UP42, geospatial developer platform and marketplace, and its parent company Airbus are teaming up for the Copernicus Masters Challenge. Their Sustainable Urban Planning Challenge focuses on remote sensing for […]
Satellogic’s Agreement With UP42 Enables Direct Access To Satellogic’s Earth Observation Data
During pre-processing, Satellogic imagery is optimized for analysis by Machine Learning (“ML”) and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) applications — a significant benefit for UP42 users who will have access to more than 75 ML/AI algorithms on the UP Satellogic Inc. provider of sub-meter resolution Earth Observation (“EO”) data collection, has entered into an agreement with UP42, […]
Spire Global’s New ‘Weather Insights’ Helps The Maritime Industry With Smooth Sailing
Spire collects global weather data through its fully-deployed constellation of over 100 satellites, reaching remote areas such as the open oceans that have traditionally been difficult to observe. Spire Global, Inc , provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, announced the addition of Weather Insights and Weather by Route solutions to its portfolio. These solutions […]
Lonestar Secedes From Stealth Mode To Develop Lunar-Based Data Storage + Edge Processing Infrastructure With 2 Moon Missions Contracted
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. is launching a series of data centers to the lunar surface and has contracted for its first two missions and for the build of the company’s first data services payload, the first data center to the Moon. The VC funded startup is revolutionizing data services and communications from Earth’s largest satellite, […]
Mission Data Framework For U.S. Space Systems Command To Be Developed By BAE Systems
BAE Systems will develop the mission data framework for U.S. Space Systems Command’s Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) system. Under the prototype contract, BAE Systems will create an integrated data management environment, connecting interoperable sources to support fusion and discovery of data, minimize disruptions, deliver near real-time status of assets and provide curated data for […]
Comtech Partners with RapidSOS To Provide Life-Saving Data To 911 Agencies Across The U.S.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) recently announced their firm’s new, SmartResponse™ solution is now designated “RapidSOS Ready.” RapidSOS is an emergency-response data platform that securely links life-saving data directly to emergency service providers and first responders. SmartResponse™ is a cloud-native solution that combines the most accurate location data with caller information, live traffic, weather, routing, […]
Omnispace and Lacuna’s IoT Network Is First Offering Commercial LoRaWan® Direct-to-Satellite Connectivity
Omnispace, the company changing mobile communications, announced an agreement with Lacuna Space to collaborate on the distribution of a ground-breaking Internet of Things (IoT) service. The collaboration will enable the commercial launch of a first-of-its-kind, global, open standards-based IoT network. The service will employ the LoRaWAN® protocol to support direct-to-satellite communications for a broad range of IoT […]
STMicroelectronics Releases Economical Radiation-Hardened ICs For ‘New Space’ Satellites
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a semiconductor company providing electronics applications, is simplifying the design and volume production of the new generation of reliable small, low-cost satellites to deliver services such as Earth observation and broadband internet from Low-Earth-Orbits (LEOs). ST’s new series of radiation-hardened power, analog, and logic ICs in low-cost plastic packages provide important functions for the satellites’ electronic […]