At its Explore Conference today, Planet announced new products and satellite improvements. New Dove satellites will capture images in up …
Axelspace show first images, signs 3 satellite launch deal
Satellite imaging company Axelspace released the first photographs from its first GRUS small satellite this week and announced plans to …
Satellogic signs launch contracts for 90 imaging satellites
Satellogic announced this week an agreement with China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) to launch 90 of its spacecraft. The …
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. …
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 …