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 […]
Imaging
OrbAstro’s Smallsat Platform To Host Aistech Space’s Guardian Imaging Payload
Aistech Space SL (Aistech) has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd (OrbAstro) to fly the company’s first Guardian mission scheduled for launch in Q4 2021 onboard a SpaceX dedicated […]
Maxar’s Rapid Access Program Adds 2 New Clients For On-Demand Satellite Imagery Tasking
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has two new customers that have signed multi-million-dollar contracts to subscribe to the company’s Rapid Access Program (RAP), including the first customer for RAP in Latin […]
Airbus’ Integration Of Third Copernicus Sentinel-2 Complete
Here’s a test that will take until next year to ensure that extensive environmental tests prove the satellite’s readiness for space. Now that Airbus has finished the integration of the […]
China Moves Another Imaging Satellite To Orbit
On July 29, 2021, Beijing time, China’s Long March 2D carrier rocket successfully launched their Tianhui-1 04 satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, which then successfully entered its scheduled […]
Exolaunch’s Big One Ton Load Of Smallsats Sent Into Orbit via SpaceX’s Transporter-2
Exolaunch, has just completed its launch campaign named ‘Fingerspitzengefühl’* by integrating 29 small satellites from the USA, Europe and South America aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rideshare mission scheduled for June […]
Orbital Sidekick’s Hyperspectral Imaging Aurora Satellite Scheduled For Launch From Cape Canaveral
Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has revealed information regarding their upcoming launch of the firm’s newest and most powerful hyperspectral imaging satellite — Aurora. Aurora leverages OSK’s previous experience collecting and analyzing […]
V-Nova, D-Orbit and Unibap Together Demonstrate VC-6 For On-Orbit Satellite Imagery Acceleration
V-Nova announced that their SMPTE VC-6 ST 2117 data coding standard has teamed up with D-Orbit in partnership with intelligent automation specialists Unibap, to demonstrate next generation hyper-spectral imaging from Polar orbit. […]
VeriDaaS Initiates California Statewide LiDAR Collection Project
VeriDaaS today announced that it has completed test flights necessary to begin its statewide California mapping project by acquiring high-density LiDAR elevation data on multiple areas of interest (AOIs). This […]
AAC Clyde Space’s Hyperion Experiencing ‘Wins’ For Their Star Trackers
AAC Clyde Space’s subsidiary Hyperion continues to celebrate the firm’s ongoing wins with its star trackers — so far in 2021, Hyperion has received a record 0.5milion euros of orders […]