Corporate News Thanks to contributions from ©Terrawatch SpaceAerospacelab: CEO of the new North American branch + Group Chief Strategy + Revenue Officer namedCarbon rating firm BeZero Carbon is partnering with French EO analytics company Kayrros to map the Amazon basin using satellite imagery and geospatial data to rate carbon projectsCarbon monitoring startup Sylvera, which uses remote sensing data among other sources, has raised $57M in Series B fundingCapella Space announced details about its next-generation SAR satellite including high-resolution imagery and low latency deliveryConstellr raises €17m in Seed FundingDevelopment Seed announced the launch of eoAPI, a cloud-native, open geospatial data infrastructure to make archived EO data more easily discoverable and interoperableLuxembourg-based startup Kleos Space has filed for bankruptcyIndian startup GalaxEye has announced plans to launch the world’s first multi-sensor satellite in 2024NuView Aims To Map Earth In 3D Using Satellite Based LiDARPlanet Completes Acquisition of Sinergise; Set to Expand Planet’s Earth Data PlatformPrivateer Space, a space sustainability startup founded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, unveiled an EO marketplace that will be powered by an edge compute, storage, machine learning, and data transmission moduleSatSure is partnering with Rabo Partnerships, an initiative of the Dutch agribusiness bank, Rabobank, to enable cash flow-based lending for smallholder farmers globally using SatSure’s EO products;Satellogic and Quant Data & Analytics Announce 3-Year AgreementSatsure invest ib Astrogate LabsSpire Global teams up with OroraTech to launch a fleet of wildfire-monitoring satellites.Spire Global awarded a GHGSat contract for satellite constellation expansion. SEE FULL STORY. Spire rolled out a new weather monitoring and alerting platform, called DeepVision aimed at the energy, supply chain and logistics industriesUmbra, which announced its open data policy earlier in the year, said it has now released over $1M worth of free data;| Expand |
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| Australia’s space industry is facing an uncertain future after the recent budget cuts which cancelled the national EO programmeAI-Empowered Policy Making with the UN Arab Region Data and Policy Support HubChina Launches New Meteorological Satellite. China launched the FENGYUN-3F weather satelliteChina successfully launches new satellite for Earth observation EU's Copernicus program: Tracking humans' impact on EarthIndia’s first Defence UAV Testing Centre to be in Tamil Nadu. Indian Startup to launch world’s first Multi-Sensor Satellite in 2024India’s IN-SPACe is considering a public-private partnership for building and operating a national EO constellation. India launched 7 Singaporean satellites, including a SAR satellite to be used by Singapore government agencies and commercial customers
Indian EO analytics firm, SatSure, which is building a constellation of satellites, made a strategic investment in Astrogate Labs, a startup building laser communications system that enhances downlink speed to 1 Gbps IN-SPACe moots PPP model for earth observation satellite constellation for India ISRO published details of the NISAR Utilization Programme, an initiative to allow Indian researchers to access data from the NISAR satellite with a dual-frequency S-and L-band SAR instrument, launching in early 2024 5 Private Companies Planning Earth Observation MissionsNASA announced the release of the first open-source geospatial AI foundation model for EO data, built using the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 dataset, in partnership with IBMNOAA Eliminates Certain Restrictions on Commercial Remote Sensing Companies. NOAA lifts many commercial remote sensing license conditionsRadiant Earth, PLACE, Spatial Collective, and the Kenyan Space Agency are collaborating on a pilot project to collect and curate labelled high-resolution agricultural data for open access and public benefit in KenyaThe UK Space Agency announced £15M in funding which will be used to invest in a range of environmental monitoring EO instrumentsThe Government of Western Australia invested AUD 800,000 in LatConnect 60, which is building a constellation of EO satellitesThe Group on Earth Observations announced the development of Global Heat Resilience Service that aims to provide every urban area in the world with intelligence on the health risks from exposure to extreme heat using EO | SkyWatch announces availability of Umbra SAR data and also launches InSARance UK Space Agency funds Earth observation technologies. UK Space Agency announces £15M for Earth Observation technologiesWhat if Latin America Built a Shared Satellite Data Center?
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| The Strategic Roadmap developed under the FIREFORUM project reflects the research and innovation strategy, with the EC and Member State funding agencies in mind as the prime audience. Download the pdf version of the road map for the following sectors
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| - Google, together with Woodwell Climate Research Center, has won a $5M grant to create satellite-based analysis methods for permafrost monitoring in the Arctic, leveraging data from public and commercial sources
- Luxembourg-based radio frequency monitoring startup Kleos Space has filed for bankruptcy, due to launch delays, satellite development issues, and challenges with accessing capital
- Iceye Awarded 1st NASA Task Order Under Satellite Imagery Acquisition Contract
- Hyperspectral satellite startup Pixxel won a grant from the Ministry of Defence to manufacture miniaturized multi-payload (optical, SAR, infrared, hyperspectral) satellites for the Indian Air Force
- Space-related security and defence projects funded through the EDF
- Spire Global Extends Contract with NASA for Earth Observation Data
- Spire won a €16M contract from ESA to demonstrate a civil aviation tracking constellation that would not rely on any global navigation satellite system
- The US Space Force will receive $40 million for a pilot program to evaluate the use of commercial imaging satellites in support of military operations
- The US Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy will provide more than $1B in funding to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, which includes tools to monitor methane emissions
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