Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for the firm’s first Electron mission in 2022, a dedicated mission for BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) through global launch services […]
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Pixxel Partners With Major Mining Company Rio Tinto To Investigate Hyperspectral Satellite Technology Benefits
Pixxel, a company engaged Earth-imaging technology, has announced an early adoption partnership with Rio Tinto. Pixxel’s imaging satellites, capable of 5 meter hyperspectral imaging, will help Rio Tinto assess the […]
NanoAvionics To Build A Biodiversity Observation Smallsat For Lemu
NanoAvionics recently received a contract for a biodiversity observation satellite mission from Lemu, a startup building an atlas of Earth’s biosphere to make conservation the best investment possible. Essential to […]
Satellite Vu Contracts SSTL To Build Their First Thermal Data Collecting Smallsat
Satellite Vu has formally signed a contract with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to build the firm’s first satellite, which is scheduled to be launched into LEO in Q4 2022. […]
A New CHORUS EO Development By MDA
MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has revealed that the company’s next generation,commercial Earth Observation (EO) mission will be named CHORUS — the company also announced that CHORUS will initially include C- and […]
Collaborative R&D EO Tech Agreement Signed By ICEYE + The U.S. Army
Recently, ICEYE entered into a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC) to advance state-of-the-art Earth Observation (EO) technology in […]
NASA Assigns A Five Year Satellite Imaging Purchasing Agreement To BlackSky
Recently, BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) secured a five-year, sole-source blanket purchase agreement by NASA to provide high revisit satellite imaging data in support of the agency’s existing Earth observation research to […]
Rocket Lab Sends Two BlackSky Satellites To Orbit With Successful Electron Launch
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully deployed two satellites to orbit for real-time, geospatial monitoring company BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY). Rocket Lab also successfully introduced helicopter operations to a recovery mission for the first […]
AeroVironment Delivers Advanced ISR for Nighttime UAS Operations
AeroVironment, Inc. has introduced the Mantis™ i45 N, a multi-sensor nighttime imaging payload compatible with Puma™ 2 AE, Puma™ 3 AE and Puma™ LE small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Lightweight […]
Demo’ing SAR OISL Capability With The SDA’s National Defense Space Architecture Is Capella Space
Capella Space has announced that the company will become the first commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) supplier to demonstrate Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) compatibility with the U.S. Space Development Agency […]