AI2 and Microsoft use satellite images plus artificial intelligence to monitor the planet Geospatial data analysis promises to revolutionize the way agriculture, urban planning and disaster relief is done — and thanks to… Read More
NRO awards contracts to Xplore and five other hyperspectral imaging companies The National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts to six companies offering — or planning to offer — satellite images of… Read More
How Amazon Web Services is helping Satellogic manage its whole Earth catalog It’s one thing to send down more than a trillion bytes of satellite data every day, and quite another thing… Read More
Beyond satellites: Now that it’s gone public, BlackSky will boldly go into new markets As a private venture, BlackSky made a name for itself providing satellite imagery and data analysis primarily for military and… Read More
Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us ‘see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered’ The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it’s coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More
BlackSky shows off first next-generation Global satellite for Earth observation Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky geospatial intelligence service is taking the wraps off its first operational satellite, Global-1, which will blaze the… Read More
NASA shows off greatest hits from DSCOVR satellite’s year of watching Earth It’s been a year since NASA unveiled the first image of Earth’s sunlit side captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory,… Read More
Planetary Resources’ asteroid miners focus on Earth observation with $21 million in new funding REDMOND, Wash. – Planetary Resources was founded as an asteroid mining company, but a fresh infusion of $21.1 million in investment… Read More