Tag: Satellite Cameras
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BlackSky Receives Contract for Subscription-Based Imagery and Analytics Services
BlackSky Technology won a six-figure contract from a new strategic international customer to provide immediate, subscription-based on-demand Gen-2 imagery and analytics services and comprehensive analyst training on the AI-powered BlackSky Spectra multi-intelligence tasking and analytics platform. Analyst training will also emphasize the use of BlackSky’s automated broad area search and discovery tools. “BlackSky’s software-first adoption…
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Redwire Cameras to Launch Onboard Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Lander for Lunar Mission
Redwire Corporation, a company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced its flight-proven camera technology will launch onboard Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander for their first mission to the Moon. Redwire delivered 12 flight cameras, a vision navigation processor, and two flight floodlights for the Blue Ghost lander. This technology will play…
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BAE Systems Integrates Prototype Payload on International Space Station
BAE Systems’ prototype payload was successfully integrated onto the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a mission to demonstrate improvements in atmospheric temperature profiling and environmental monitoring capabilities, among other missions and technologies. The payload launched in collaboration with the ISS National Laboratory and Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc., which supplied the…
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Maxar Intelligence Reveals the First Images from its WorldView Legion Satellites
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence, released the first images from its next-generation WorldView Legion satellites, the first two of which were launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on May 2, 2024. The high-resolution, 30 cm-class images were collected on July 16, 2024, by one of Maxar’s WorldView Legion satellites on…
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iLAuNCH Trailblazer Project Advances Space Tech with Onshore Manufacturing of New Space Camera
The Australian defence and space industry is set to achieve onshore manufacturing of new eye in the sky technology, a space camera that can provide images back to Earth at high speed that will aid in disaster resilience operations, land management, and defence. This multi-sensor camera for Earth observation is now in development with Leonardo,…
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Simera Sense to Open Optical Payload Development Hub in Toulouse, Extending its Global Reach
Simera Sense, the frontrunner in end-to-end optical solutions for smaller satellites with headquarters in Belgium, is strengthening its global presence by opening an office in Toulouse, France. This move is a testament to its growth strategy, bolstered by the €13.5 million funding secured in an investment round earlier this year. The company already has 19…
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UK Scientists Utilize Data from Euclid Spacecraft to Probe Mysteries of the Dark Universe
The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission launched in July 2023 to map the ‘dark Universe’. This involves observing two billion galaxies to create a 3D map of the universe and gathering data on how its structure has formed over its cosmic history. The images and science released represent early findings – from only 24 hours…
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Sidus Space Signs Second Agreement with HEO for NEI Payload and Data Services
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space, and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs that it has finalized an additional agreement with HEO, a leading provider of non-Earth imaging (“NEI”) and data, for NEI payload and data services. Under the agreement, Sidus Space will host HEO’s NEI imager, HOLMES-006, onboard LizzieSat-3, as…
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Apex Releases Satellite Selfie Following Successful First Payload Commissioning
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, released its “satellite selfie,” an image taken by its Aries SN1 spacecraft. The photograph was taken by a payload owned by Apex, which completed commissioning last week. The image was taken by a camera mounted on the satellite bus’s payload deck. The camera captures one of the deployed solar…
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NASA Signs Space Act Agreement with Nikon to Develop Camera for Artemis Lunar Mission
When NASA sends astronauts to the South Pole region of the Moon for the first time with its Artemis campaign, they will capture photos with a handheld camera to help advance scientific research and discovery for the benefit of all. NASA and Nikon recently signed a Space Act Agreement that outlines how they will work…