Imagery and Sensing

Maxar Technologies was awarded a sole-source, Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army Geospatial Center to deliver multiple portable, direct-downlink tactical ground systems providing geospatial intelligence to users in remote...

Microsoft is getting into the satellite ground station business with Azure Orbital. Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of the offering, a ground station service that allows satellite operators to...

Iceye brought in $87 million in its Series C funding round, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) company announced Tuesday. This funding round is more than double what Iceye raised in...

The Scouting Mission for Luxembourg-based data-as-a-service company Kleos Space is set to launch on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C49 Mission, targeted for early November. The PSLV-C49 Mission will...

Planet has landed a deal to supply its imagery to critical event management (CEM) company Everbridge. Planet’s satellite imagery will now be added to Everbridge’s Visual Command Center, through which...

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched Capella Space’s first public Earth Observation (EO) satellite late Sunday in the smallsat launcher’s return to flight after a failure in July. The mission...

On Sunday evening, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster launched SAOCOM 1B, an Earth Observation (EO) satellite for Argentina’s National Commission on Space Activities (CONAE). The Falcon 9 took off Sunday...

Rocket Lab’s first mission since its launch failure in July is slated for later this week, and it will carry Sequoia, the first publicly available satellite in Capella Space’s planned...

PredaSAR is cleared to begin fabrication, testing, and launch of its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) spacecraft after completing its Critical Design Review (CDR). Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems is building the satellites...

Near Space Labs, which captures Earth Observation (EO) imagery from stratospheric balloons has reached a deal to supply imagery to property analytics data firm Arturo.  Arturo delivers physical property characteristic...