Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) have announced the successful deployment into space of TASL’s TSAT-1A satellite aboard the SpaceX Bandwagon-1 mission that launched from Launch […]
Hyperspectral Imaging
Open Cosmos ‘HAMMER’ satellite successfully launched via the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission
Open Cosmos recently launched HAMMER, the company’s latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite — after a successful lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as […]
Loft Orbital: The rise of the virtual mission
For decades, satellites have been a valuable resource for understanding events on Earth in slow motion, from assessing damage from extreme weather, to forecasting crop outputs, to predicting economic activity […]
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 […]
Vega launcher’s fuel-free CubeSats to keep formation with wings
Spain’s trio of ANSER CubeSats, due to fly on Europe’s next Vega launcher, will fly like a flock of birds on-orbit — in more ways than one. Keeping in formation […]
RTX space sensor to monitor coastal ecosystem health
Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has announced that the company’s Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) sensor has completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and is now in […]
OQ Technology wins million€ ESA contract to build 3 advanced smallsats
OQ Technology has been awarded a 1.1 million euros contract to design, build, integrate, test and demo three, advanced smallsats that will feature multiple payloads, providing space-based, 5G, narrowband Internet-of-Things […]
The Satellite Applications Catapult + Open Cosmos sign agreement for an OpenConstellation satellite
The Satellite Applications Catapult and Open Cosmos have signed an agreement to build and launch a key demo satellite to join the Open Cosmos OpenConstellation — the satellite will be […]
Pixxel’s $36 Million in Series B funding will advance hyperspectral satellite constellation and data platform
Pixxel, a hyperspectral Earth-imaging technology, announced $36 Million in a Series B funding round with participation from new investors such as Google, along with existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume […]
A Transporter-7 attainment: Orbital Sidekick launches their GHOSt smallsats
Orbital Sidekick (OSK) recently engaged in the successful launch of GHOSt 1 and 2, the first satellites in the company’s planned GHOSt(™) (Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite) constellation — this was […]