Imagery and Sensing

Capella Space raised $97 million in its Series C financing round, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company announced on Monday. NightDragon led the round, with significant participation from existing investors...

Planet Labs announced Thursday that its next-generation Pelican constellation will provide up to 30 cm resolution. The constellation is also designed for greater revisit rate and will and give customers...

Maxar Technologies announced Wednesday it made a strategic investment in geospatial analytics company Blackshark.ai to boost its 3D Earth Intelligence product portfolio. Maxar said this investment combines its satellite imagery...

Planet Labs is partnering with SynMax, a Houston-based satellite analytics and intelligence company, to provide energy insights and monitor dark vessel movement.  SynMax founder Bill Perkins met Planet CEO and...

Capella Space is introducing three new analytics capabilities into its web application —  vessel detection, change detection, and global change monitoring. Capella said these new products expand its self-service tasking...

Planet is launching a new product called Planetary Variables, using capabilities from the VanderSat acquisition. Planetary Variables are pre-processed data feeds that measure soil water content, land surface temperature, and...

Satellite imagery provider Satellogic successfully launched five additional spacecraft to Sun-Synchronous Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Friday aboard SpaceX‘s Transporter-4 Falcon 9 rideshare mission originating from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station....

For decades, only the government had the means and experience to handle geospatial data, particularly for defense and intelligence purposes. But the pendulum is swinging toward an exponential growth in...

Satellogic is working with geospatial and AI analysis software company Astraea to distribute Earth observation data directly to the Ukrainian government, allied governments, and humanitarian organizations on the ground for...

Weather intelligence company Tomorrow.io is still pursuing its plan to build a satellite constellation, despite the end of its SPAC deal, the company’s co-founder told Via Satellite.  Tomorrow.io and special...