16 August 2017
DigitalGlobe signs DAP contract with Australian Department of Defence
... the Australian Department of Defence to download imagery in real time to its its ground station from all five DigitalGlobe satellites—including WorldView-4, launched in November 2016, and WorldView-3, launched in August 2014, which are the world...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... is starting. US government support In the US, public institutions support this new economy. A bit like the early support to DigitalGlobe, the US government (through the NGA) has declared many times its enthusiasm for the NewSpace entrepreneurs...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... deliver insights to the commercial market. Maxar Technologies was created almost a year ago from MDA’s acquisition of DigitalGlobe (DG) to create vertically integrated, end-to-end solutions for the new space economy. The company is opening access...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... purchased for as little as US$100 an image (compared to the thousands of dollars per image charged by companies like America’s DigitalGlobe). This makes satellite imagery available not only to Middle East governments and large companies like Aramco...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...is one of the main engines driving the expansion of small satellite constellations, with companies such as Astro Digital, DigitalGlobe, or the well-known Planet. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists’ database there were, on 31 December 2016...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
... the open ocean. There are imagery providers such as DigitalGlobe and Planet, and space-based radars from MacDonald, Dettwiler...the coastal regions and oceans for customers such as DigitalGlobe. Key communications capabilities built by Harris are on ...
