Imagery and Sensing

Maxar Technologies signed a three-year contract to continue providing its Vivid and Metro satellite imagery mosaics to Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. This new contract builds upon Esri and...

China launched another BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 2:09 a.m. local time on Tuesday. Launched on a Long March-3B carrier...

NASA, one of the U.S. government agencies that manages GPS, wants to expand the navigation system’s application in a place many probably never thought of using it — space itself....

Globalstar and Echo Ridge developed and are prepared to support a live field demonstration of a stand-alone Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capability to backup and/or complement GPS in case of...

SpaceX launched three RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellites, developed by MDA for the Canadian Space Agency, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. According...

Orbital Insight opened an office in Singapore. This is the company’s seventh office location, and the second dedicated sales office to open in Asia in the past 16 months. The...

Intermap Technologies released NEXTMap Orthorectification, a new satellite imagery enhancement service. Available as a cloud-based application or professional service,  NEXTMap Orthorectification leverages Intermap’s worldwide, NEXTMap One Terrain Model (DTM. Pictures taken...

Under the terms of a new partnership agreement, Finnish satellite data services company ICEYE will provide Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to Ursa‘s energy customers in return for Ursa reselling ICEYE...

Mitsubishi Electric launched a Space and Sensing Systems division at its Cypress, CA headquarters. The new division will sell satellite on-board equipment including solar array panels, lithium-ion batteries, and Radio Frequency...

Lockheed Martin developed a satellite imagery recognition system using open-source deep learning libraries to quickly identify and classify objects or targets in large areas across the world. According to the...