Market Watch "at glance"

September 2015

• 21AT Announces Availability of In-Orbit Images from the TripleSat Constellation
• ÅAC Microtec and Spacemetric partner on smart downlinking of Earth observation data
• Apple acquires Mapsense for $25 million

• 'Carbonite' space imager revealed

• CartoDB Announces $23M Series B Round of Financing
• Creonic enables high-speed downlinks for Aquila Space's nanosatellites

• DigitalGlobe’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program renewed

• DigitalGlobe expands partnership with Orbital Insight
• Italian Space Agency and NASA Sign Agreement on Use of COSMO-SkyMed Satellites
• In 2012, U.S. Ocean and Great Lakes Economy Grew Much Faster than Overall GDP
• Earth-i announces forthcoming operational data services from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation
• Established Imagery Providers Face Changing Competitive Landscape
• Euroconsult Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Market prospects to 2024
• France Unveils Commercial Space Investment Initiative
• Google restructures into new company called Alphabet 
• MDA Corp. Explains Drop in Satellite Orders, Says Move Out of U.S. Possible

• NorStar Space Data Inc Gains IBM, Boeing as Partners

• Planet Labs Gains First Independent Board Director

• Satellite-Based Earth Observation Services Market by Government Users 2015 Review, Research, Size, Share, Industry Analysis, Trends and Forecast 2019
  

• Significant supply expansion for EO industry

• South African satellite company signs deal with China's only commercial satellite operator

• Spacemetric and ÅAC Microtec partner on smart downlinking of Earth observation data 

• Specim gets $5.9 million funding

• TerraGo Publisher Enables Cloud-based GIS Portals for the Enterprise

• TerraSAR-X Satellite Feeding of Copernicus Data Warehouse Extended until 2020

• Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio to deliver COSMO-SkyMed ground segment to Polish Ministry of Defense 

• Thales Alenia Space to build Cosmo-SkyMed second-generation satellites

• Thales Alenia Space Prepares the Successor to Pleiades and CSO

• The Feasibility Of It All—Airbus Defence & Space Sign On With CNES For Future EO Systems

• Trimble Transforms Satellite Data into Intelligence with its New Remote Sensing Suite

• TripleSat Constellation Shows Off One-Meter Imaging Capability
  

• United Nations ASIGN Integrates what3words

• USDA Awards $20.5 Million to Advance the Next Generation of Natural Resources Conservation

• USAID Announces $10 Million in New Global Research Collaboration