Rocket Lab Snags IR Sensor-Maker In $275M Deal
“With this deal, Rocket Lab will officially enter the payload market as a disruptive prime contractor to US national security.”
Stories about the Earth Observation industry’s eyes on our planet.
“With this deal, Rocket Lab will officially enter the payload market as a disruptive prime contractor to US national security.”
Inside CEO Theresa Condor’s plans for a revitalized satellite company.
Muon collects IR data, an area in which US commercial providers lag behind Chinese competitors.
The new venture, called Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions, will split ownership 60/40 between Rheinmetall and ICEYE, respectively, and expects to begin production of SAR sats in the second quarter of next year.
Europe will launch a satellite to map the world’s forests in 3D, to hunt down illegal logging and track climate change by mapping how forests store carbon.
“I think the rubber is really going to meet the road,” Umbra COO Todd Master told Payload. “A lot of interesting tech got put into space. The question now is what of that data actually is needed by customers—that customers are willing to pay for?”
By measuring ground temperatures from space down to 30 m in resolution, constellr can help its customers make climate-informed decisions that make a real economic impact.
The funds will help Esper meet the upcoming launch date of its flagship four-sat constellation, dubbed “Four Leaf Clover,” which could see its first two sats launch in February 2026.
The number of new satellite constellation businesses has sharply declined over the past decade as the space market matures and new startups struggle to find angles to differentiate.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago this week catapulted EO tech into the spotlight, providing a bird’s eye view of everything from Russia’s build up of military equipment along the border to the theft of Ukrainian grain. Seeing the benefits of EO before and during the conflict, industry officials said other countries have been […]
BlackSky launched its first Gen-3 Earth observation satellites aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket yesterday, adding higher-resolution imaging to its data offerings.
The program will allow free, unrestricted use of images captured by Wyvern’s three Dragonette hyperspectral satellites under the flexible public release creative commons license as long as credit is attributed to Wyvern.