Imagery and Sensing

Orbital Sidekick, a San Francisco-based analytics and hyperspectral payload startup, received a $16 million multi-year contract from the U.S. Air Force‘s commercial investment group, AFVentures, to accelerate the deployment of...

Maxar Technologies revealed Tuesday that Esri signed a multi-million dollar contract extension to continue licensing data for the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. The expanded agreement ensures that ArcGIS...

Satellogic revealed Friday the public launch of the Global Consortium of Geospatial Imagery. European Space Imaging, a supplier of global imagery in Europe and North Africa, joins as a founding...

GHGSat revealed Tuesday that ABB will deliver the payloads for GHGSat’s next three methane detecting satellites. This is part of GHGSat’s plan to have a constellation of 10 spacecraft in...

Environmental sensing solutions Intellisense Systems received Phase II financing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue its development of a stand-alone field-deployable sensor for remote satellite measurements of...

Cosine reported on Monday that HyperScout 2, a miniaturized Earth Observation (EO) instrument, delivered an image processed in space using Artificial Intelligence (AI). This was the first time an image...

The U.S. Space Force has reached a contract with SpaceX to reuse Falcon 9 boosters for upcoming Global Positioning System (GPS)-III launches, a first of its kind for National Security...

BlackSky is preparing for the next generation of its geospatial intelligence constellation. The company announced Thursday that Gen-3 satellites will be designed to provide 50 centimeter resolution and host multiple...

The European Space Agency (ESA) selected Airbus to develop and build the Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Mission (CRISTAL) — a contract worth approximately $350.4 million (300 million euros)....

Norway has awarded Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), Planet, and Airbus a $43.5 million contract for satellite imagery to monitor forests around the world. KSAT, Planet, and Airbus are providing imagery...