April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... geographic information system trends done at a whole new scale; i.e., the geospatial cloud. This was shortly after DigitalGlobe published a retrospective on the company’s massive shift of archival data to the cloud via AWS SnowMobile. Soon, the...
01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
... not fly its own satellites, but rather obtains data through contracts with constellation owners, including DigitalGlobe, Airbus, Planet, Rapid Eye and Urthecast. This enables the company to keep costs at bay and concentrate...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... on the International Space Station in 2017 and is available for use on all of Maxar’s spacecraft platforms. The operations of DigitalGlobe, SSL (Space Systems Loral) and Radiant Solutions were unified under the Maxar brand in February; MDA...
