Carbon 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 projects
Indian startup GalaxEye has announced plans to launch the world’s first multi-sensor satellite in 2024
Privateer 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 module
India’s IN-SPACe is considering a public-private partnership for building and operating a national EO constellation
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
NASA 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 IBM
Radiant 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 Kenya
The UK Space Agency announced £15M in funding which will be used to invest in a range of environmental monitoring EO instruments
The Government of Western Australia invested AUD 800,000 in LatConnect 60, which is building a constellation of EO satellites;
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SAR satellites from Capella Space are falling back to Earth much sooner than the three years they were anticipated to operate, due to a combination of issues with the propulsion system and increased solar activity
Planet Joins BARSC. Planet has announced a layoff of 117 employees, about 10% of its ~1,000 employees
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European space traffic management company Neuraspace has joined NVIDIA Inception, a program that nurtures startups revolutionizing industries with artificial intelligence
Real-estate broker Redfin will include wind risk data provided by the non-profit firm First Street Foundation, based on current and projected wind exposure from hurricanes, for nearly every U.S. property listed on its website