Small Sats

Weekly GEOINT Community News

Australia to Create Space Agency; Planet to Launch SkySats; RAND Publishes Roadmap to Success for NGA; Orbital Insight Reveals Extent of Hurricane Harvey Flooding

Weekly GEOINT Community News

Lockheed Martin Building New Satellite Facility; Accenture Acquires Search Technologies; CACI ISS Awarded Navy C4ISR Contract; Leidos Test AgilePod for U.S. Air Force

Weekly GEOINT Community News

NGA Signs Second Contract with Planet; OGSystems Spins Off BlueGlass Analytics Platform; Google Takes Street View to International Space Station

Weekly GEOINT Community News

Boundless Partners with Mapbox; Leidos Awarded $64 Million U.S. Army Task Order; Soyuz-2 Launches, Releases 73 Satellites; Carahsoft Offers Webinar Series

Enabling New Space

Small sat experts discuss opportunities, barriers to innovation

Space-based Revolution

Commercial remote sensing experts agree: the community is in the midst of a revolution

Observing Earth

Earth-i promotes new color video satellite constellation

Big Data from Small Sats

Speakers from government and industry discussed solutions for analyzing big data derived from small sats at USGIF’s “Powering GEOINT Analytics” workshop.

Rapid Growth for Planet

Planet announced February 3 its intent to acquire Google’s small satellite business, Terra Bella, along with its fleet of seven SkySat satellites—a deal that will make Planet the undisputed leader in small satellite commercial remote sensing.

Autonomous Agronomy

Precision agriculture applies technology to improve crop yields and reduce costs as well as to provide early warning signs about food insecurity and regional conflict