Satellite imaging company Axelspace released the first photographs from its first GRUS small satellite this week and announced plans to …
Space as a Service? Reaktor Space Lab says yes
Is Reaktor Space Labs (RSL) the future for Fortune 500 companies? Three years ago, Finland-based Reaktor Innovations wanted to buy …
ICEYE and Spire announce SAR radar + AIS ship tracking service
Data fusion, melding together different sources of information, is in its infancy within the commercial satellite world. Synthetic aperture radar …
Planet, Spire Global, AxelSpace add sats with end of year Soyuz launch
Planet and Spire Global hitched a ride on the first Soyuz launch out of Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome, both adding satellites …
Planet, Spire score NASA commercial Earth science pilot data contracts
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 …