Albedo announced plans June 12 to send its first phone-booth-size satellite into very low Earth orbit early next year.

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Privateer’s recent acquisition of Orbital Insight sheds new light on the Hawaiian startup’s ambitious plans, which are likely to include future acquisitions.

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Redwire is designing SabreSat for government intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

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Airbus will continue to improve its Pleiades Neo Next constellation rather than duplicating the capabilities of its two Pleiades Neo satellites.

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Kuva Space will develop onboard hyperspectral data processing and communications links to help Finnish government agencies focused on border security, wildfires and landslides.

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While constructing its own climate-monitoring constellation, Silicon startup Muon Space was won contracts worth more than $60 million to design, build and operate 10 remote-sensing satellites for customers.

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The Planet Insights Platform is designed to help government and commercial customers rapidly analyze, stream and distribute data.

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Grasp is moving ahead with plans to establish a 10-satellite constellation in the next four years.

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Satellites are playing a growing role in identifying methane sources at a time when the international community is focused on curbing emissions.

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As space gets more crowded, very low Earth orbit (VLEO) will be a critical domain for military Earth observation.

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Earth observation startup Albedo raised $35 million to build and launch its first high-resolution satellite into very low Earth orbit.

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Companies in the Earth observation satellite industry are looking for climate-focused customers that could leverage data from space to generate value for their businesses and for the planet.

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HawkEye 360 announced the acquisition Dec. 18 of Maxar Intelligence RF Solutions, the business unit formed after Maxar acquired Aurora Insight.

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Researchers often spend months fine-tuning algorithms to improve data quality. For SWOT’s Ka-band Radar Interferometer, known as KaRin, ocean observations were clear immediately.

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The first NASA satellite to measure air pollution hourly shows so much promise that the space agency is already thinking about ways to extend its life.

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Canada’s newly announced plan to invest 1 billion Canadian dollars ($739 million)  over the next 15 years in the Radarsat mission is part of the federal government’s climate resilience strategy. […]

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Smallsat developer Open Cosmos has raised $50 million to expand the company and develop larger satellites and constellations focused on Earth observation.

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The Singapore startup known for sending blockchain nodes into space is rolling out a service that integrates artificial intelligence with Earth imagery.

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More cost-effective satellites on the larger Rideshare strains end of the smallsat scale are opening up new capabilities for the Earth observation industry. New sensors and improved performance promise to attract a greater variety of customers to the market.

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MGP platform is designed to simplify and speed up access to the Colorado company’s high-resolution Earth imagery.

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Kuva Space plans to launch four microsatellites in 2024 and to deploy as many as 100 satellites by 2030.

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Requiring companies to add data about their environmental impact to financial accounts could greatly expand the market for space-based Earth monitoring services. Many businesses are already reporting this information as […]

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Nuview plans to launch, a Space Proof of Concept Satellite called Mr. Spoc, in a little more than two years.

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EOSDA, Dragonfly and Space Electric Thruster Systems (SETS) are part of the Noosphere Group, established in 2014 by international entrepreneur Max Polyakov to create an integrated space business.

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