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OneAtlas’ Expanded Markets Provide Easy Access To Imagery And Insights

Up and running for two years, OneAtlas has become a key digital asset for a large number of Airbus geospatial customers, who use the platform daily to access a very wide range of imagery products and AI- based analytics. It enables them to easily monitor economic activities and supports their decision-making. OneAtlas offers immediate access […]

Astrobotic Debuts Their Peregrine Lunar Lander Patch

Set to launch later this year, the Astrobotic Peregrine team reveals a meaningful mission patch design for the world’s first, commercial, lunar landing. In anticipation of Peregrine’s launch into space later this year, Astrobotic has released a commemorative mission patch filled with some meaningful Easter (or more appropriately, peregrine) eggs. The focal point of the […]

ICEYE’s Three Newest SAR Smallsats Deliver Their First Radar Imagery

ICEYE has just published their first set of images from the three ICEYE SAR satellites that were launched at the end of January by the SpaceX Transporter-1 mission. All three spacecraft have successfully completed initial operations and are now progressing through the calibration process. Once the calibration stage and final preparations are completed, the spacecraft […]

ClimaCell Building A Weather Constellation

ClimaCell, a leading weather intelligence platform, has announced Operation Tomorrow Space. To improve global forecasting technology and capabilities, ClimaCell has designed proprietary, radar-equipped smallsats and will start launching dozens of them into space over the coming years. ClimaCell’s radar-equipped smallsat constellation represents a first in the history of the weather industry. While weather-focused satellites have […]

Dragonfly Aerospace’s Imagers To Pixxel For EO Satellite Constellation

Dragonfly Aerospace has signed a contract for the development and delivery of high resolution electro-optical imagers for Pixxel’s planned satellite constellation. The constellation will follow the upcoming launch of Pixxel’s first satellite ‘Anand’, which also happens to be India’s first private Earth imaging satellite. The planned constellation of satellites will provide global coverage every 24 […]

Japanese Space Startup, Synspective’s First SAR Image

Success came to Synspective as it received the first image acquisition from its first own SAR satellite “StriX-α”. This is the first success in Japan that a commercial SAR satellite(100kg class) image has obtained from space. “StriX-α” was launched by Rocket Lab’s Electron, from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula launch site, on December 15th (JST) and […]

NextGen Federal Systems Secures USAF Global Synthetic Weather Radar (GSWR) Contract

NextGen Federal Systems has been awarded the Global Synthetic Weather Radar (GSWR) Research to Operations (R2O) contract by the US Air Force. MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s (MIT LL) research effort established the viability of leveraging available observation data as input to Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to derive radar-like data. Operationalizing the GSWR research capability will provide […]

Black Sky Receives Multi-Year Research Contract From IARPA

BlackSky has received an award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for a multi-phase, multi-year research contract — IARPA is responsible for leading research programs to overcome difficult challenges relevant to the U.S. intelligence community. BlackSky has been selected to aid in the development of IARPA’s Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) Program. […]

ICEYE’s Public Archive Delivering 18K+ Images From SAR Satellites

Access to ICEYE‘s Public Archive has been announced by the firm — this archive contains nearly 18,000 images from ICEYE satellites. The ICEYE Public Archive includes radar imagery in various imaging modes taken with ICEYE’s SAR satellite constellation between mid-2019 and now. The ICEYE Public Archive consists of preview images from around the world, which […]