On Friday, April 18 Firefly Aerospace will launch FLTA006 (Message in a Booster) between 6:37 AM – 8:17 AM PDT Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, California, at a cost […]
Earth Observation Satellites
Satellogic EarthView dataset now openly accessible via registry of Open Data on AWS
Satellogic has announced that the Satellogic EarthView dataset is now openly accessible on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud through the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program. The Satellogic EarthView dataset includes […]
Arianespace’s successful top secret launch for French military
The CSO-3 military observation satellite has been successfully launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane 6 from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. Carrying a very-high-resolution optical instrument built by Thales Alenia […]
SuperSharp and NanoAvionics plan first of a kind disruptive Thermal InfraRed imaging satellite
UK based SuperSharp, part of the Satlantis group, has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics’s (NanoAvionics) MP42 microsatellite platform for a first-of-its-kind Thermal InfraRed (TIR) mission called Blue Moon. The mission will embark […]
Airbus-built Biomass forest measuring satellite shipped to Kourou
Biomass, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Airbus-built satellite, has left Toulouse for its journey by ship to Kourou, French Guiana, ready for launch. Biomass, an Earth Explorer satellite, is ESA’s […]
Oxford Space Systems selected for UK EO mission
The UK Ministry of Defence has announced that the Oberon Earth Observation (EO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite mission has been awarded to Airbus Defence and Space, with Oxford Space […]
Rocket Lab schedules the launch for 1st of multiple missions for BlackSky
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) will soon launch a satellite on a dedicated Electron mission, the first of a bulk order of multiple new missions for real-time space-based intelligence […]
ICEYE + SATIM enter partnership for new, AI-powered SAR imagery analysis product
ICEYE, the global leader in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations for high-fidelity Earth Observation (EO), and SATIM, a world-leading provider of AI-based solutions for Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) on […]
Earth Observation, growing in importance and ability
By Chris Forrester This panel at the Smallsat Symposium, held in Mountain View on February 5, focussed on capacity issues but also looked at applications which could be anticipated in […]
Rocket Lab signs multi-launch contract with iQPS for four Electron missions
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has signed a multi-launch deal with Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based, Earth imaging company. The multi-launch contract, signed in […]