Tag: Spaceflight
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Syrian crisis puts Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky satellite data platform to the test
BlackSky’s online imaging platform can link a satellite view of the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo to real-time social media streams about the area to provide greater context. (Spaceflight Industries Graphic) Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is giving early adopters a preview of its online BlackSky satellite imagery platform, which blends overhead views of sites around the world with…
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Spaceflight Industries unveils BlackSky satellite’s first pictures of our planet
An image from Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky Pathfinder-1 satellite shows farms and industrial sites around Beijing. Click on the image for a larger version. (Credit: Spaceflight Industries / BlackSky) Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is sharing some of the first pictures of Earth ever taken by its low-cost, high-resolution BlackSky Pathfinder-1 satellite – and they’re spectacular. The roughly 100-pound…
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Spaceflight signs up Google’s Terra Bella for satellite launch on SpaceX rocket
An artist’s conception shows Terra Bella’s SkySat satelltes in orbit. (Credit: Terra Bella) Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries says it’s made a deal with Terra Bella to have the Google subsidiary’s Earth-observing satellites launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket next year. The agreement makes Terra Bella, which was known as Skybox Imaging before Google bought it…
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India’s PSLV rocket sends BlackSky Global’s first Earth-watching Pathfinder satellite into orbit
India’s PSLV-C35 rocket rises from its launch pad, carrying eight satellites into space. (Credit: ISRO / Doordharshan via YouTube) A satellite that’s meant to blaze a trail for Seattle-based BlackSky Global’s Earth-imaging constellation rose into orbit tonight atop India’s four-stage PSLV-C35 rocket. BlackSky’s Pathfinder 1 was among eight satellites launched from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota at…
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Why small satellites are big for startups
An artist’s conception shows Planetary Resources’ Arkyd 6 prototype Earth-observing satellite, which is due for its maiden launch this year. (Credit: Planetary Resources) Small satellites, and the startups that make them, are becoming a big deal – and there’s a fresh flurry of industry reports that explain why. The bottom line is that new types of…
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Spaceflight raises $18 million and acquires OpenWhere to build satellite data portal
One of BlackSky’s Pathfinder satellites undergoes final integration. (Credit: BlackSky) Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is moving ahead on two fronts to build an online portal for satellite imagery: It has secured $18 million in new venture capital, and is acquiring a Virginia-based company called OpenWhere to create the software platform for distributing the images. “It’s all about…
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Spaceflight’s online price list makes it easier for the feds to buy a launch
Spaceflight’s SHERPA carrier, shown in this artwork, is set to deploy 87 satellites. (Credit: Spaceflight) Federal agencies can now buy a satellite launch as easily as they buy pencils, thanks to a new arrangement with Seattle-based Spaceflight. OK, maybe it’s not quite that easy. You still have to get the go-ahead to put something into orbit, whether…
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Spaceflight offers a Cyber Monday deal: Satellite launches for $200,000 – that’s 33 percent off!
Spaceflight’s Cyber Monday deal will deliver satellites to orbit in 2018. (Credit: Spaceflight) Here’s a Cyber Monday deal from Seattle-based Spaceflight for the space geek on your list: Purchase a satellite launch for one-third off, at the low, low price of $200,000. The only catch is that you’ll have to wait until 2018 for the satellite…
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Three reasons why Seattle’s big on space ventures, plus three frontiers to watch
Jeff Bezos shows off the concept for Blue Origin’s launch system during a September news conference in Florida. Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is headquartered in Kent, Wash. (Blue Origin photo) What is it about Seattle that’s led some folks to call it the “Silicon Valley of space,” and how far can space entrepreneurs go…
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Israeli-based SpaceIL gets set for 2017 moon race with Spaceflight’s help
A rendering of the planned SpaceIL robotic lander. Credit: SpaceIL Israeli-based Team SpaceIL has signed up to launch a robotic lander to the moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the latter half of 2017, thanks to an arrangement with Seattle-based Spaceflight. SpaceIL will be a “co-lead” customer for the launch, the organizers of…