As part of the nation’s effort to ensure a robust small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) industrial base for national and economic security, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit […]
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The First Commercial Order For Creotech’s HyperSat Smallsat Platform Is Received
Creotech Instruments S.A., in cooperation with the Military University of Technology in Poland, recently initiated the process of building a constellation of three satellites. The cooperation takes place as part […]
NGA Awards Maxar With G-EGD Contract Renewal For Mission-Ready Satellite Imagery
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has been awarded an Option Year 2 contract renewal by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. The contract, […]
Euroconsult Projects A $7.5 Billion Earth Observation Data & Service Market By 2030
The Earth Observation (EO) market has undergone shifts in financing, with optical constellation operators going public to accelerate their deployment and to develop new services. Furthermore, the EO market experienced […]
Orbital Logic’s SpyMeSat Now Available On The Web
Orbit Logic‘s SpyMeSat is now available through a web-based browser interface. SpyMeSat Web1 provides the same capabilities as the mobile app. Users can seamlessly transition between mobile and web platforms […]
NASA Selects SpaceX To Launch GOES-U
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission. GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements […]
September 11, 2001 — Let Us Never Forget! Maxar’s Satellite Imagery Of The Attacked Target Sites, Collected Directly After The Airborne Aggression
America is approaching a somber milestone: the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. That morning, four commercial airplanes were hijacked: two crashed into the World Trade Center […]
Satellite Imagery Of The Destructive Caldor Fire Near South Lake Tahoe Captured By Maxar
Thanks to the imagery collection resources of Maxar, views of the destructive Caldor wildfire as the conflagration approaches the southern edge of Lake Tahoe along the California-Nevada border reveal the […]
Orbit Logic Adds Augmented Reality To Their SpyMeSat App
Orbit Logic’s SpyMeSat mobile app (available in the Apple App Store and Google Play) now includes an augmented reality (AR) interface for better awareness of overflying imaging satellites. The AR […]
Maxar’s WorldView-1 Captures General, Overhead Views Of Evacuation Chaos At Hamid Karzai Int’l Airport In Afghanistan
Maxar collected new satellite imagery on August 19 of Kabul, including the Hamid Karzai International Airport (photo above). Large crowds of people and cars can be seen gathered at multiple […]