Tag: Satellogic
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Australia’s HEO Buys Satellite Already in Orbit to Fast-Track Sovereign Space Capability
Australian non-Earth imaging startup HEO has acquired an operational satellite from Argentina-based Earth observation company Satellogic, opting for an in-orbit purchase rather than building and launching a new spacecraft to establish sovereign imaging capability. The satellite, formerly known as NewSat-34 and now renamed Continuum-1, will immediately expand HEO’s non-Earth imaging (NEI) capacity, enabling applications such…
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Portugal Orders Two Earth-Observation Satellites From Satellogic for Atlantic Constellation
Portugal has commissioned two new Earth-observation satellites from Argentine company Satellogic, strengthening its space-based monitoring capabilities and contributing to a joint Iberian initiative aimed at expanding European-owned orbital infrastructure. Satellogic said on Monday it had signed an $18 million contract with Portugal’s Centre of Engineering and Product Development (CEiiA) to build and deploy two NewSat…
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How Amazon Web Services is helping Satellogic manage its whole Earth catalog
Color-coded satellite imagery shows how crops are faring in Brazilian farmland. (Satellogic Photo) It’s one thing to send down more than a trillion bytes of satellite data every day, and quite another thing to turn all that data into a complete picture of our planet that’s updated daily. For the first part of the task,…
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Satellogic strikes Chinese deal to launch 90 satellites for Earth-watching network
China’s Long March 6 rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in 2017. (CCTV via YouTube) An international space venture called Satellogic says it will have 90 satellites launched by a Chinese company to create an Earth-observing constellation. The first launch by the China Great Wall Industry Corp. under the newly announced deal,…