NASA announced it has awarded sole source blanket purchase contracts for test data sets from New Space start-ups Planet and …
Capella Space gets more cash for radar sat constellation
San Francisco-based Capella Space announced it has closed $19 million in second round venture funding. The company plans to put …
HyperSat gets $85M, fast track to launch in 2020
New Space companies are known for speed, but HyperSat believes it can launch its first high-resolution hyperspectal imaging satellites in …
Planet Labs opens new satellite factory with big capacity, potential
This week Planet Labs announced it opened a new satellite manufacturing and testing factory in San Francisco. The first batch …
In brief: DigitalGlobe 80+ TB/day, Descartes Labs out of beta, Astro Digital Landmapper first images
DigitalGlobe’s 80 TB/day Planet’s 6 TB/day image data collection figure posted early and often seems to have trigged a response. …
Spaceflight SSO-A rideshare to carry 70+ satellites into orbit
Later this year, Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries will launch the largest US-based rideshare mission into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base …
A sky full of (commercial) eyes – Up to 1,300 Earth observation satellites in next 5 years
Today, there are around 300 or so Earth observation (EO) satellites in the skies above, operated by a mixture of …
Image mining company Ursa Space lands $5.7M in new venture money
Ursa Space Systems announced today, July 19, that it has recently closed $5.7 million in new venture funding. The round …