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. the Israeli startup that offers an infrastructure monitoring platform providing insights from SAR imagery is looking to launch its own L-band SAR satellite (more on this below);
- AiDash, the EO-based infrastructure monitoring company is launching an energy grid resilience product together with Schneider Electric
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; 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; NV5 Global, a geospatial consultancy has acquired Axim Geospatial, a geospatial solutions provider in the defence and intelligence sectors. - 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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| Bayanat and Yahsat develop earth observation capabilities - EU to inject €3.75B into venture capital funds to help companies scale up
ESA signs Cooperation Agreement with Mexico ESA launched the beta version of the Green Transition Information Factories platform aimed at providing tools for green transition derived from EO data; ESA released this video on the state of the ozone layer, its recovery and the role of satellites in monitoring it, including ESA’s upcoming Altius mission; GHGSat is collaborating with the International Energy Agency to integrate facility-level emission data into Global Methane Tracker 2023; Egypt Launches Earth Observation Satellite, Horus-1 Sentinel-4, aimed at monitoring global air quality, is set to be integrated to its host, the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder weather satellite. - Science for a Europe fit for the digital age
NATO is launching a new initiative to streamline the process of gathering, disseminating, and distributing satellite data for use by its members; - The 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15) adopted the long-awaited Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
UAE's largest satellite company, Yahsat and the country's space research centre, MBRSC, are partnering to build EO solutions for Yahsat’s customers;
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| - Airborne Surveys Launched in Chile to Detect Sources of Methane
Atlas Space Operations, a ground software as a service company has joined the AWS Solution Provider Program to expand its ground station network Axelspace develops a Ka-band radio for EO smallsats 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 launched a high-performance, digital twin SYNTH3D for metaverse, gaming, virtual reality applications. 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;.
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Orbital Insight expands global customer base with TerraScope platform rollout Small satellite integrator, Open Cosmos will be launching a multimodal satellite with IoT-EO sensors later this year for the Andalusian (Spain) state; - 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; - The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2023
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| EarthDaily Analytics was awarded a $1M Canadian Space Agency to enable analytics-ready thermal detection calibration and processing; - 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 The Guyana Ministry of Natural Resources has signed a three-year contract with Maxar to provide imagery and insights for environmental monitoring; 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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