Imagery and Sensing

China launched a BeiDou-3 satellite into Geostationary Orbit (GEO) for the first time, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 41st...

Harris provided Lockheed Martin with its sixth of ten navigation payloads contracted for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III satellite program. The GPS III navigation payload features a Mission Data Unit...

  Space engineers have teased images taken in-orbit by the RemoveDebris satellite, marking another successful Active Debris Removal test by the international project. RemoveDebris carried out a test of its...

MicroDragon, a miniaturized satellite developed by Vietnamese engineers, is scheduled to be launched in December with the assistance of Japan. The launch was announced on October 18 by the Vietnam...

Arianespace launched a heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket carrying BepiColombo – Europe’s first mission to Mercury, organized in cooperation with Japan – on its way toward the solar system’s smallest and...

Radiant Solutions was awarded a contract worth $92 million on a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Radiant Solutions is tasked to rapidly develop,...

Maxar Technologies company DigitalGlobe released Sensing4Farming, an Internet of Things (IOT) product for smart, digital, and precision agriculture created in partnership with Vodafone Spain. Sensing4Farming aims to provide crucial insights about...

Garmin announced Instinct, a watch with Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), and Europe’s Galileo satellite support, built-in 3-axis compass, and a barometric altimeter. In addition...

By the year 2050, the world’s population is expected to hit 10 billion. Feeding that population will mean increasing global food production by 70 percent — without poisoning the world’s...

NASA is evaluating how data from the commercial small satellite industry could supplement its own Earth science data. The agency launched a pilot program to evaluate the data, and on...