MDA will likely go public (again), after $1-billion takeover
MDA’s revenue was expected to decline this year because of the end of its most recent Radarsat mission. Radarsat makes a lot of money for MDA. Maxar said the businesses…
R2 Space Receives Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Contract
R2 Space Inc., an Ann Abor-based space intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance provider, announced April 20 it has won a contract by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) that it says will…
Data fusion provides a 55% increase over training on SAR data alone.
Jacob Shermeyer, Daniel Hogan, Jason Brown, Adam Van Etten, Nicholas Weir, Fabio Pacifici, Ronny Haensch, Alexei Bastidas, Scott Soenen, Todd Bacastow, Ryan Lewis "We find that state-of-the-art segmentation models trained with multiple modalities outperform those trained with only a single…
Neva Ridge Technologies Sells to General Atomics
General Atomics has purchased Neva Ridge Technologies, a Boulder, Colo.-based provider of synthetic aperture radar data processing technology and services, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its…
Capella Space Launch of Sequoia is Delayed
An Update from Capella Space on Sequoia and COVID-19 WRITTEN BY CAPELLA MARKETING ON MARCH 26, 2020. We wanted to update everyone that we are not launching Sequoia in March,…
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CSA Issues Letter of Interest for SAR Technologies
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…
SAOCOM Launch Postponed Due To Coronavirus Travel Restrictions
Argentina’s Satélite Argentino de Observación Con Microondas (SAOCOM) comprises two L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation satellites – SAOCOM-1A (launched by SpaceX in October 2018) and SAOCOM-1B. Both satellites were built…
ICEYE Shows The US economy has come to a standstill
American and Delta, which each have fleets of about 1,000 aircraft, both have around 10% of their aircraft in the air currently, according to flight tracking company RadarBox on Friday.…
Capella Space and Rocket Lab to Launch Mid-Inclination Satellite
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…
ICEYE releases dark vessel detection product
The company said Dark Vessel Detection is used as a source of actionable information for governments monitoring their Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), day and night, and even through cloud cover.…