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 Systems
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Arianespace is targeting October 4th for the VV23 launch
Arianespace is targeting the launch of mission VV23 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana for Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 10:36 p.m., local time (October 5, 01:36 a.m. UTC) — […]
Successful precipitation Scans from Tomorrow.io’s space radars
Tomorrow.io and the firm’s two, pathfinder radar satellites — Tomorrow-R1 and Tomorrow-R2 — have successfully characterized precipitation intensity from space. This achievement places Tomorrow.io alongside NASA and JAXA as the […]
Sidus Space acquires Exo-Space
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has acquired Exo-Space, a firm that specializes in edge Artificial Intelligence (eAI) software and hardware for space applications — this transaction signals Sidus’s determination to tap […]
Satellogic + Quant Data & Analytics secure a new agreement
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) has signed an agreement with Quant Data & Analytics (“Quant”) — this strategic agreement leverages Satellogic’s high-resolution satellite imagery to serve and evolve the ever-expanding property […]
Spire Global awarded million$ NASA contract
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has been awarded a $6.5 million, 12 month contract renewal to continue participation in NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program — the contract represents a $500,000 […]