Corporate News EARSC, the European Association of Remote Sensing companies, is conducting an industry survey to map the state and health of companies providing EO services in Europe. Will you contribute? Asterra announced the launch of their EO Discover platform, a software application for the infrastructure sector, powered by EO - AiDash, the EO-based infrastructure monitoring company is launching an energy grid resilience product together with Schneider Electric
Drone imaging firm, Zeitview (formerly DroneBase) raised $55M, positioning itself as complementary to and competing with satellite imagery. Element84 has acquired Azavea, bringing together two organisations that quietly work together in the background to make geospatial data easier to process, analyse and visualise through open-source innovation; Maxar is on track to being acquired by Advent International, the private equity firm for $6.4B, after receiving no competing offers; Maxar is partnering with Umbra to receive dedicated access to SAR imagery, enabling Maxar to provide multi-source geospatial intelligence solutions for governmental and commercial customers; - Open Cosmos MENUT Satellite Sends First EO Images
Orbital Insight, the EO platform company, reported that it has secured new global customers for its recently released Terrascope product, while also quietly announcing that it has raised a new round of undisclosed funding; - SatSure, a vertically integrated EO company from India raised an undisclosed amount in strategic investments from the country’s major banks - ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and HDFC Ltd.
SatelliteVu, the UK-based EO company, building thermal infrared satellites announced that it has secured £81 million worth of purchase options from 30 companies for their Early Access Programme. - World View is positioning itself as an EO company in their SPAC investor presentation
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Atlas Space Operations, a ground software as a service company has joined the AWS Solution Provider Program to expand its ground station network BlackSky, Inmarsat and Addvalue accelerate Earth Observation (EO) with IDRS™ - Crop Hunting Drones Help Police Bust Illegal Drug Farms
- Drones for Agriculture in India
German wildfire monitoring startup, Dryad, which raised funding last year for early wildfire detection by monitoring environmental variables using IoT. John Deere announcement in January that they were “finalising a satellite partner” in order to build a geospatial map that farmers can use to better track productivity and the performance of crops. - Location Technologies Transforming Retail and Commerce Industry
Large number of launches planned Maxar will also be teaming up with Heavy.ai, Bain, and NVIDIA to provide high-frequency, high-resolution digital twins for communication service providers enabling greater efficiencies in network deployments; - Number of geostationary satellites hosting an EGNOS payload.
Orbital Insight expands global customer base with TerraScope platform rollout - Synspective, Terra Insight Announce EO Monitoring Solution for Mining Industry
SpaceQuest Ventures invests in Kreios Space and welcomes them into accelerator program. Click here Space Compass, a Japanese joint venture between NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT, is partnering with Skyloom to provide optical data relay services for EO missions, aiming to reduce the data downlink latency to seconds;
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| French AI/EO startup Preligens is aiming for success with the US DoD after winning contracts from the French defence ministry (in French); Maxar Technologies was awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, worth up to $192 million over five years; Techstars announced their first cohort of startups in Saudi Arabia, which includes several EO startups: Airmo, Kawa Space, SARsatX and SMSNR. - India’s three major banks ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and HDFC Ltd investing in SatSure;
- Peraton, a US-based defence contractor won a ~$400M contract from NOAA to provide ground services for polar-orbiting JPSS weather satellites;
Two major energy companies, Williams and ONEOK, investing in Orbital Sidekick;
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