01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
... financial structure, which benefits all stakeholders,” Intelsat said of the transaction. $20 million raised by Orbital Insight On June 27, Orbital Insight announced that it had raised $15 million in Series B funding from venture capital groups and...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... engineers during a pivotal period prior to the arrival of the lander on the martian surface. At present, after leaving orbit, InSight will plummet to the ground at 5.9 km/second and relay its EDL operations to Earth via the MRO. Unfortunately...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
...Data analytics; it launched a real-time cloud-based maritime monitoring platform in July 2018. It has partnered with Orbital Insight and Ursa for AI machine learning and deep learning. The plan is to build analytics verticals by targeting agriculture...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... period 2018-2022. Space without satellites Some start-ups do not plan to fly their own satellites: Orbital Insights, based in Palo Alto, recently received US$20 million in new investment, including US$5 million from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... are required as much as those of communications satellite in a crisis. Several companies (such as Descartes Labs, Mapbox, Orbital Insight, SpaceKnow and Ursa) are seeing a growing interest from customers seeking to use satellite imagery to track the...
