EO

Inside Spire’s Lucrative AI Partnership with Nvidia

Payload spoke to Mike Eilts, a meteorologist and Spire’s general manager for weather and climate, about the deal and predicting weather from space.

EO

The Big Questions About Starshield, SpaceX’s Classified EO Project

SpaceX’s move into EO could present a big challenge to companies selling space data already.

EO

ICEYE Unveils Ocean Vision Product Line

Finnish SAR company ICEYE announced a new family of products today that will use its existing satellite constellation to help customers locate, track, and characterize assets at sea.

EO • International

BlackSky Wins $50M Project To Give Indonesia Eyes in the Sky

BlackSky inked ~$50M-worth of contracts with the Indonesian Ministry of Defense to provide the agency access to the company’s commercial space-based intelligence, with plans to build a sovereign capability for the country down the road.

EO • Q&A

Understanding AI’s Impact on Space Data with Planet’s Head of Product

Payload spoke to Nate Gonzalez, Planet’s head of product, to understand what the last year of AI hype means for earth observation companies like his. 

EO • VC/PE

Exclusive: SynMax Raises $13M

SynMax, a satellite data analytics company building products to monitor industrial assets and dark ships around the globe, has raised a $13M round of funding as it eyes new markets for its analysis platforms.

EO • Science

The Space Industry’s Climate Impact: Part 3

As governments around the world wrestle with how to stop the harmful effects of climate change, they’re finding space a useful vantage point from which to understand the scope of the problem.

EO • Europe • International

UK, Portugal, and Spain Partner on New EO Constellation

The UK intends to join Spain, and Portugal to build a new small-sat constellation to improve climate change research and disaster monitoring.

EO

Satellogic Wins NOAA License

Satellogic ($SATL) notched a big win in its quest to capture more American business opportunities with a new remote sensing license granted by NOAA.

Civil • EO

Canada Announces $739M for EO

On the heels of a historically bad wildfire season, Canada is investing in better eyes in space.

EO • Payload Pioneers 2023

Payload Pioneers 2023: Payton Barnwell

As a product manager at SkiFi, Payton Barnwell is working to make Earth observation data exciting for everyone.

Business • EO • Payload Pioneers 2023

Payload Pioneers 2023: Jennifer Horowitz

Mapping the Earth from space provides obvious benefits for defense and navigation, but Jennifer Horowitz, Maxar’s senior technical strategic partnerships lead, believes the technology has much broader implications.

EO • International

Limits on Collecting Satellite Imagery Over Israel Continue

As the world watches Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel unfold, American eyes in the sky are limited in what they can show because of a 1997 law.