XCAM Ltd. recently secured more than £200,000 grant funding from the UK Space Agency’s Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) to develop and evaluate a New Space, ultra-low-light, camera system […]
Earth Observation (EO)
SSC supported the THEOS-2 launch
SSC is supporting the launch of Thailand’s high-resolution EO optical satellite — THEOS-2 — that was successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on October 9th at 03:36 AM (CEST). The mission […]
Planet’s Pelican tech demo satellite ready for launch
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has announced that the company’s Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in preparation for launch […]
NASA selects Umbra for the CSDA program
Umbra has been selected by NASA as a commercial provider for its Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. The CSDA Program will acquire Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data under […]
SatVu’s first First Light imagery from revolutionary thermal imaging satellite
SatVu, the British climate tech company recently announced a significant achievement in space technology, releasing the First Light imagery from its revolutionary thermal imaging satellite, HOTSAT-1, at the same time […]
Big Earth imager to be tested on small Vega CubeSat
A briefcase-sized CubeSat being flown on Europe’s next Vega launcher this week will gather 340 km wide views of Earth’s vegetation growth, employing a spectral imager originally designed for ESA’s decade-in-flight […]
Planet gains business across Canadian provincial governments
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has expanded contracts with existing customers across the Canadian provincial governments, including British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Quebec, and Alberta. Planet data and solutions will […]
Spire Global receives million$$$ NASA contract
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has been selected for a Multiple-Award, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by NASA to provide Earth Observation (EO) data for the agency’s Commercial Smallsat […]
NASA selects commercial smallsat data acquisition contractors
NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the agency’s Earth science research. The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program will acquire Earth Observation (EO) data and […]
Satellogic + SkyWatch announce a new EO partnership
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) and SkyWatch are partnering to bring Satellogic’s highest resolution, commercially available EO data to EarthCache customers. Satellogic’s EO data is now available via SkyWatch’s EarthCache platform. […]