Imagery and Sensing

Private equity firm Affiliates of Antarctica Capital has acquired a controlling interest in geospatial intelligence company Descartes Labs.  The deal was announced on August 4, and financial terms were not...

South Korean satellite data and technology company Hancom inSpace (Hancom) has signed its second contract with Spire Global to host an additional optical payload on a Spire 6U satellite that...

Virginia-based geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery provider BlackSky Technology secured reseller rights to 23 different tasking and archive imagery products owned by Airbus under the terms of a new partnership...

ESA and the European Commission confirmed Wednesday that they have lost the Copernicus Sentinel-1B Earth observation satellite after it experienced a power supply failure in December that left it unable...

Ball Aerospace secured two contracts with NASA to support the NOAA’s next-generation geostationary weather satellite constellation under the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program. The space systems manufacturer said on Monday...

Lockheed Martin and Maxar Technologies have been tasked with developing the concepts for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation GeoXO program. NASA awarded the companies $5 million, 10-month firm-fixed-price...

Satellite Vu has commissioned a second satellite from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to grow its thermal imaging collection capacity.  The U.K. satellite startup is working to build a constellation...

Members of U.S. Congress joined HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini on Friday to cut the ribbon on the company’s brand new 19,000-square foot satellite manufacturing facility in Herndon, Virginia. U.S....

The European Space Agency gave Thales Alenia Space and QinetiQ a study contract to pave the way for small multi-mission satellites to operate in Very Low-Earth Orbit (VLEO). In the...

Iceye will participate in a risk transfer project with the Ghana Ministry of Finance, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), the company announced July...