Ball Corporation, which owns Ball Aerospace, which has built several Earth science instruments for NASA/NOAA missions, is exploring a sale of the business unit for more than $5B
BlackSky was awarded a multi-year contract worth more than $30M to provide on-demand, real-time high-frequency imagery services to an international defence sector customer
Capella Space was awarded a multi-year agreement by NASA, with contracts that could be valued at $7M per call
Fleet Space, which is building a constellation of IoT satellites to connect its proprietary tomographic sensors used for mining exploration applications has raised $33M in a Series C round
Global Fishing Watch, a non-profit focused on monitoring global fishing was awarded a $60M contract by the Audacious Project for openly mapping and publishing human activity on the oceans
GRASP Global, which plans to deploy a constellation of satellites for air quality monitoring launched its platform to provide air quality forecasting;
Hydrosat is acquiring IrriWatch, a Dutch early-stage agriculture analytics startup
IGN launched a new public-private partnership initiative to integrate solutions from EO startups into ecological mapping projects
Kleos is joining hands with defense corporation General Atomics to derive insights from RF data
Muon Space, a bespoke EO satellite provider, launched its first demonstration satellite and unveiled plans for its Climate Constellation
Nuview, which aims to launch a constellation of lidar-equipped satellites has raised $15 million including from Leonardo DiCaprio. NUVIEW, which plans to launch a constellation of lidar-equipped satellites won a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense, worth $2.75M
Orbital Sidekick and EOS Data Analytics, a Ukraine-based EO company that plans to launch a constellation of optical imaging satellites have received the first images from their recently launched initial satellite(s)
Planet is partnering with the UAE Space Agency providing access to its data to build a regional loss and damage solution for climate change resilience; Planet also announced partnerships with AI data analytics providers - synthetic data startup, Synthetaic and South Korean startup SI Analytics
Prométhée awarded a contract to French satellite player Hemeria, to supply the first satellite of its planned EO constellation, followed by an additional 20 satellites, all equipped with multispectral sensors
Reask has raised $4.9M in seed funding to continue scaling its global risk mapping and forecasting products
SatelliteVu, which aims to launch an EO satellite constellation to acquire thermal infrared data has raised $15.8M in a Series A-2 round
Sidus Space, which offers space-as-a-service for EO announced that its satellite equipped with multispectral, hyperspectral and edge compute capabilities in 2024
Spire announced that the two satellites which were launched on the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission were equipped with optical inter-satellite link payloads, aimed at reducing data latency and increasing data security;Spire is collaborating with BlackSky to build a maritime solution to automatically detect, identify and track vessels in real-time, fusing data from their two sensors - radio frequency (RF) and high-res optical imagery
SkyFi is joining hands with very high-resolution, stratospheric imagery provider Near Space Labs. SkyFi, which offers an application for the on-demand acquisition of satellite imagery, has raised $7M in a seed round
Tomorrow.io, a weather intelligence company building a constellation of satellites with precipitation radars and microwave sounders raised $87M in a Series E round (more, if you want to understand the weather market)
Whereobots, a startup building a geospatial platform for enterprises closed a $5.5M seed round.
China is using a nationwide satellite and automated monitoring system to protect nature (article piece)
Copernicus, the EU’s flagship EO programme announced the launch of the Copernicus Health Hub, a one-stop-shop for all Copernicus data, products and information having to do with health
GHGSat is partnering with UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult to provide UK organisations with access to high-resolution methane emissions satellite data
ESA and ECMWF outlined a new approach to better anticipate the outbreak of fires using data from the agency’s SMOS mission to create the Fire Occurrence Probability Index
UK’s geospatial strategy 2030 document outlining the opportunity in geospatial and the plans for unlocking the power of EO
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced the launch of ‘Global Greenhouse Gas Watch’, an initiative that brings under one roof all space-based and surface-based observing systems for emissions, standardising the models and data assimilation methods
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
As greenhouse gas emissions reached an all-time high, a new study provides an update on the indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence, some of which uses EO data to compare the state of indicators used in IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), published in 2021
deep-dive that provides an excellent report on the state of forest monitoring and how advancements in EO will help improve it further;
EU Maritime Security Strategy in this article published by GEOsmart Magazine.
EO startup Impact Observatory announced the launch of IO Monitor, a global mapping and monitoring product to classify land use and land cover
ESA project will demonstrate how artificial intelligence could use satellite data to help certify organic cotton farms in India to prevent fraud;
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, researchers found that of the 133 developing countries studied for progress towards providing regular GHG inventories, over half of them still struggle to report GHG emissionsGoogle Earth Engine became a key tool for monitoring deforestation around the world
Google announced the global launch of its AI-driven flood forecasting platform, Flood Hub, which uses satellite data along with other sources
Lightning Imager animations can be found in the media kit here.
Iceye unveiled a new imaging mode that can distinguish human-made and natural objects and highlight moving vehicles, by having the satellite focus on an area for 25-seconds
investigative article that shows how satellite data used by the non-profit Global Fishing Watch is used to catch illegal fishing
The Copernicus Marine Service is organising a two-hour training workshop to help journalists and science communicators better appreciate the importance of Copernicus marine data in storytelling (piece)
UNOOSA report on the role of space technologies in the world, which recently exceeded a population of 8 billion
Wildfires: article that tells you everything that you need to know about understanding wildfires
WMO article that shows how the economic costs of weather-related disasters have rapidly grown but early warnings have saved lives;
Climate risk analytics provider Jupiter Intelligence announced that Fannie Mae, a mortgage-backed securities firm will be integrating Jupiter’s products for climate risk assessment
Northrop Grumman won a launch contract from the US Space Force to launch a small weather satellite that will demonstrate commercial weather imaging technologies for military use
Serco was awarded a contract by ESA for the implementation of Europe’s Destination Earth platform, an initiative to create the digital twin of the planet.
US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded contracts to 4 companies - Umbra, PredaSAR, Northrop Grumman and Jacobs to demonstrate formation flying of SAR satellites and algorithms for processing of the imagery collected
The stocks of Planet dropped by at least 25% after the company lowered annual revenue guidance from $248 million and $268 million to $225 million to $235 million for fiscal year 2024
Unlocking the full potential of Earth Observation in Europe is the theme of EXPANDEO 2023, the annual conference of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), which is taking place in Brussels 13 – 14 June.
Intersolar Europe, the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry, is happening 13 – 16 June in Munich. Come learn how the industry is using EU Space to, for example, find the best location for placing solar panels.
ESA Commercialisation Days event Transportation - 27 November 2023
How do you innovate in uncertain times? EU Space can help! To learn more, join EUSPA at EBN2023, the largest gathering of European incubators, accelerators, science parks, innovation centres, and innovation supporters of all kinds. That’s taking place 14 – 15 June in Brno, Czech Republic.
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