August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
...ups do not plan to fly their own satellites: Orbital Insights, based in Palo Alto, recently received US$20 million in new... the investment arm of the US intelligence community. Orbital Insights gathers its data through contracts with EO data owners and...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... shallow underground water detected by radar are tenuous at best - even radar has a limited range underground. NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander will be the first mission to explore...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
...data sources and deliver the wide range of intelligence and insight required by partners and governments. The types of data incorporated... value to the work and providing rich, detailed insight not always otherwise available. All are fully integrated ...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
...be exploited for value creation in applications right here on Earth A fundamental issue in using data analytics for providing insights across the agriculture value chain is the precision of data. While satellite imagery acts as the foundation of much...
18 April 2023
Spire launches customers’ Earth and debris monitoring satellites
... GmbH, an Austrian investor in new space technology. ADLER-2 continues the mission of ADLER-1 (launched in January 2022) to provide insights into space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) and expand novel atmospheric sensing capabilities to study clouds...
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... since engineers have heard from MarCO, which followed NASA's InSight to the Red Planet. At this time, the mission ...characters from a Pixar film - served as communications relays during InSight's landing, beaming back data at each stage of its descent...