Corporate NewsEARSC, 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? Airbus signs agreement with TerraNIS to export Farmstar in Europe. To learn more about Farmstar, click here. Asterra, the Israeli startup that offers an infrastructure monitoring platform providing insights from SAR imagery is looking to launch its own L-band SAR satellite Capella Space signed a multi-launch deal with Rocket Lab to launch four of their ‘Arcadia’ SAR satellites (possibly to replace these five falling birds). Capella Space announced the launch of its Analytics Partner Program to promote use of SAR data from their satellites, starting with three partners - Woolpert, Kayrros and Floodbase; - Chloris Geospatial, a startup using satellite data to measure forest carbon closed a seed extension round from investors including AXA Investment Managers among others
EO company Ursa Space, which focuses on data fusion with SAR, has added space-based radio frequency data from Kleos Space to its platform NV5 Global, a geospatial consultancy has acquired Axim Geospatial, a geospatial solutions provider in the defence and intelligence sectors. Orbital Insight, an EO platform company, has partnered with Carahsoft, IT solutions provider to provide geospatial data analytics to the public sector - Ubotica slashes satellite data overload with on-board AI solution
Topolytics, a UK-based that uses satellite imagery among other sources for its waste management platform raised €1.7M.
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| Data act: member states agree common position on fair access to and use of data Egyptian Space Agency has an EO satellite to its fleet, Horus-1, built and launched under strategic cooperation between Egypt and China - EUMETSAT expert on the significance of satellites for flood and drought monitoring (interview)
Guyana Ministry of Natural Resources has signed a three-year contract with Maxar to provide imagery and insights for environmental monitoring; IRISS, the EU’s forthcoming satellite communications constellation, will soon compliment Galileo and Copernicus by providing independent, secure, resilient, cost-effective and seamless communication services. Read more in this article by Space.com. NATO is launching a new initiative to streamline the process of gathering, disseminating, and distributing satellite data for use by its members; The Canadian Space Agency awarded ten contracts worth $6.8M to five different companies in the country for EO-related R&D projects.
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| - Microsoft announces Azure Orbital Space Software Development Kit, software tools to make it easy for developers to create space applications in the cloud and deploy them on spacecraft operated by Azure Orbital partners - Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space and Xplore
Near Space Labs will provide imagery from their stratospheric balloons to property risk insurtech firm Tensorflight. - Small satellite integrator, Open Cosmos will be launching a multimodal satellite with IoT-EO sensors later this year for the Andalusian (Spain) state
Thermal infrared startup, ConstellR signed a multi-launch contract with launch service provider ExoLaunch for launch of their satellites in 2024 Space-as-a-service company, Sidus Space has partnered with edge computing startup Exo-Space to provide edge AI capabilities into its planned satellite constellation; World Meteorological Organization will be running an Uncrewed Aircraft Systems to evaluate the use of drones for filling in atmospheric gaps in weather forecasting and monitoring;
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| Airbus Defence and Space won a contract from Angola for their first Earth observation satellite, continuing the trend of sovereign EO globally EarthDaily Analytics was awarded a $1M Canadian Space Agency to enable analytics-ready thermal detection calibration and processing; Maxar was awarded a contract by the US Army worth ‘tens of millions of dollars’ to provide geospatial data to construct 3D virtual models of Earth Satellite IoT company, Astrocast was selected by Swiss Polar Institute to provide connectivity for for remote snow, glacier, and permafrost monitoring stations in Central Asia TCarta expands role in Seabed 2030 Ocean Survey Project
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| List of capdev meetings at CEOS - course on the applications of SAR data, by a SAR expert
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