Market Watch "at glance"

December 2018

Market

• Airbus-built French military Earth observation satellite (CSO) launched successfully
• Amazon Web Services Reveals AWS Ground Station Program
• Axelspace completed Series-B round of financing. Axelspace Chooses SKY Perfect JSAT's Ground Station Service
• BASF and VanderSat collaborate to provide farmers with high-precision, field-specific crop optimization
• Beyond GEO Satellite Market Emerging Trends and New Technologies Research 2018-2025
• Copernicus Accelerator by the European Commission fast-tracks business development
• exactEarth AIS Payload on the PAZ Radar Satellite is Now Live

• Earth-i's Satellites Help Severn Trent to Fix Water Leaks

• FAO and NASA launch Collect Earth Online tool to track landscapes, land-use, disasters
• GEO and Amazon Web Services collaborate to provide cloud credits for projects that improve understanding of our planet
• Harris launches its first smallsat
• HyperScout demonstrates that satellite imagery can be processed in space
• Indigo Ag, Inc. Acquires TellusLabs, a Leader in Satellite Technology and Artificial Intelligence, to Enhance Indigo’s Data-Driven Agronomic Solutions 
• Key trends in earth observation and how they are driving commercialization & democratization
• MapTiler wins Airbus Challenge of the Copernicus Masters 2018
• Maxar Technologies’ MDA to Advance Innovative Technologies Under the Defence Innovation Research Program
• Planet to acquire software specialist Boundless Spatial ( Boundless Spatial )
• Radiant Earth Foundation CEO Anne Hale Miglarese Appointed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Commercial Remote Sensing Federal Advisory Committee

• SKY Perfect JSAT and KSAT Selected by Axelspace for the First Japanese EO Smallsat Ground Station Services

• Spire taps Galileo for space-based weather data
• Visualizing Hydrocarbon Gases Helps Prevent Venting to the Atmosphere