We built a word cloud based on the 100+ stories Payload ran on the European space industry this year, and one theme jumped out immediately: a lot of forward-looking language.

The joint venture owned by Finnish EO firm ICEYE and German arms maker Rheinmetall has turned on its money-printing machine.

The real value of the ELC, according to Raúl Verdú, PLD’s chief business development officer, is the doors the challenge opens for PLD to extract knowledge from ESA.

Even without a satellite in orbit, SatVu is giving investors a behind-the-scenes look at hot spots they’re going to be tracking in the future. 

In a magic trick, making something disappear is only part of the act—bringing it back is what earns the applause.

Orbital traffic is increasing at a rapid clip, and many sats aren’t even looking where they’re going. 

Military capabilities on orbit are ramping up, but aside from a handful of explosive anti-satellite demos in recent decades, the rising tension has yet to get physical.  

The volume of EO images has grown exponentially the past decade, but cleaning up, deciphering, and extracting value from these datasets remains manual, expensive, and time-consuming, according to Wherobots officials.