China Enters the SAR Wars
Chinese startup Spacety began releasing imagery captured by Hisea-1, a 185-kilogram C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, launched in December on a Long March 8 rocket. Three days after launch, Spacety…
The term “small satellite”, or sometimes “minisatellite”, often refers to an artificial satellite with a wet mass (including fuel) between 100 and 500 kg (220 and 1,100 lb)
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Chinese startup Spacety began releasing imagery captured by Hisea-1, a 185-kilogram C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, launched in December on a Long March 8 rocket. Three days after launch, Spacety…
Silicon Sensing Systems’ high performance DMU30 micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) inertial measurement unit (IMU) has been selected by the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) of Fukuoka, Japan,…
Urthecast which was moved from the TSX to the OTC pink sheets years ago has finally filed for bankruptcy. In Canada this process it is called "the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act…
According to various sources, total funding for space companies reached close to US$6 billion in 2019, raking in hundreds of millions from VC funds over the years. Once considered to…
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued a Letter of Interest (LOI) for seven priority technologies the agency wants industry to develop under its Space Technology Development Program. The technologies…
Rocket Lab, a space technology company and global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has inked a deal to launch a dedicated mission for Capella Space, an aerospace and information services…
Japan’s iQPS The PSLV-C48 mission will feature a revolutionary satellite test technology by Japan, in the iQPS microsatellite. The 100-kg synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microsatellite aims to provide all-weather, 24/7 earth observation services for hire.…
Amidst all the space related advancements, Japanese start-up Synspective and Ground Based networking specialists and EO service providers from Norway, KSAT have announced their partnership for a new mission. Synspective,…
Press Release: MetaSensing Italia awarded the manufacturing of the StarSAR-X, a space Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload, with the "HUB Research and Innovation" call from Lombardia Region. October 20, 2019…
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- US-based EOS Data Analytics Inc. (EOS), a space portfolio company of Noosphere Ventures, today unveiled EOS SAR – a project to develop…