{"id":18180,"date":"2019-01-16T00:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellogic-strikes-chinese-deal-to-launch-90-satellites-for-earth-watching-network\/"},"modified":"2019-01-16T00:16:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:16:57","slug":"satellogic-strikes-chinese-deal-to-launch-90-satellites-for-earth-watching-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellogic-strikes-chinese-deal-to-launch-90-satellites-for-earth-watching-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellogic strikes Chinese deal to launch 90 satellites for Earth-watching network"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_473929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-473929\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-473929\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190115-longmarch-630x470.jpg\" alt=\"Long March 6\" width=\"630\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190115-longmarch-630x470.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190115-longmarch-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190115-longmarch-1260x939.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190115-longmarch.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-473929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">China\u2019s Long March 6 rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in 2017. (CCTV via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An international space venture called Satellogic says it will have 90 satellites launched by a Chinese company to create an Earth-observing constellation.<\/p>\n<p>The first launch by the China Great Wall Industry Corp. under the newly announced deal, scheduled for later this year, will deliver 13 satellites to low Earth orbit on China\u2019s Long March 6 rocket, Satellogic said today in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Satellogic\u2019s constellation seems likely to compete with the remote-imaging satellite constellations operated by San Francisco-based Planet and Seattle-based BlackSky. The company promises to remap Earth at 1-meter pixel resolution every week and dramatically reduce the cost of high-frequency geospatial analytics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to help solve the world\u2019s most pressing problems by building an accurate and up-to-date picture of our planet and the many forces that reshape it every day,\u201d Satellogic founder and CEO Emiliano Kargieman said. \u201cThis agreement is a major step in realizing that vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>China Great Wall was established in 1980 with authorization from the Chinese government to provide commercial launch services and satellite systems as a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The company has already launched a demonstration nanosatellite for Satellogic, as well as five larger satellites, and it\u2019s due to send three more spacecraft into low Earth orbit this year under the terms of an earlier agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to extend our highly successful working relationship with Satellogic,\u201d Gao Ruofei, executive vice president of China Great Wall, said in today\u2019s news release. \u201cSatellogic\u2019s constellation will introduce a new era of affordable Earth observation, just as the LM-6 will open new opportunities for the global space industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Satellogic intends to cover the planet at 1 meter of resolution every week\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DCwQfDXN_pE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>U.S.-based satellite operators are generally barred from having their payloads launched on Chinese rockets. However, Satellogic\u2019s headquarters and development facility is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and its satellite assembly facility is in Montevideo, Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>The company also has a data technology center in Barcelona, Spain; a product development center in Tel Aviv, Israel; and a business development center in Miami. Satellogic\u2019s newest branch office, in Beijing, will focus on constellation customization, data services and industrial applications.<\/p>\n<p>Satellogic says it employs more than 150 satellite engineers, solution specialists and experts in artificial intelligence. In 2017, the company&nbsp;raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by Tencent, a Chinese investment holding company.<\/p>\n<p>Like Planet and BlackSky, Satellogic is targeting satellite imaging applications in fields such as disaster response, oil and gas prospecting, infrastructure monitoring, forestry and agricultural crop assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,20,4711],"class_list":["post-18180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-satellite","tag-satellogic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}