Earth Observation News
Latest Earth Observation news and analysis — 17 articles tagged Earth Observation on The Robotics Media.
- Rocket Lab Marks 96th Electron Flight With 'Owl By The Dozen' Launch — — Rocket Lab lofts Synspective's 12th StriX satellite from Mahia in New Zealand, chalking up its 17th Electron launch of 2026 and reinforcing a partners...
- Rocket Lab Notches 16th Electron Of 2026 With Earth-Observation 'Happily Ever Faster' — — Rocket Lab has flown its 16th Electron mission of 2026 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, delivering a confidential Earth-observation satellite to...
- Open Cosmos Bags €300M To Turn Europe Into A Space Data Superpower — — British-Spanish smallsat maker Open Cosmos raises €300M in a Lightrock-led round to expand four European satellite factories and scale its ConnectedCo...
- Vega-C lofts Sentinel-3C and FLEX to watch Earth's climate — — Avio's Vega-C rocket launched EUMETSAT's Sentinel-3C and ESA's FLEX satellites from Kourou in a double-header for Europe's climate-monitoring programm...
- Tomorrow.io Unveils DeepSky, A Satellite Architecture Purpose-Built To Feed AI Weather Models — — Boston climate-tech firm Tomorrow.io has unveiled DeepSky, a next-generation microwave-sounder architecture designed to feed high-cadence observations...
- Pixxel Closes $100M Series C, India's Largest Space-Tech Round — — Bengaluru-based Pixxel raised $100 million in a Series C co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, taking total funding to $195 million and marking India's larg...
- ISRO's GSLV Mk II Launches EOS-05, India's First Geosynchronous Imaging Satellite — — ISRO targeted a 5:25 p.m. ET liftoff on September 3, 2026 for its GSLV F17 mission, sending the 2,367 kg EOS-05 earth-observation satellite toward geo...
- Rocket Lab launches iQPS QPS-SAR-18 'SUSANOO-II' on 14th Electron of 2026 — — Rocket Lab lofted iQPS's QPS-SAR-18 'SUSANOO-II' synthetic-aperture radar satellite to a 575 km mid-inclined orbit aboard Electron from Mahia today, n...
- Arianespace Sets Aug 27 for Ariane 6's First Geostationary Mission — — Ariane 62 will loft the MTG-I2 weather satellite for EUMETSAT and ESA on August 27, 2026 — Ariane 6's first flight to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Rocket Lab Books Three More Electron Launches for Japan's iQPS SAR Constellation — — Rocket Lab has signed its third multi-launch deal with Japanese SAR operator iQPS in under a year, bringing total booked Electron missions to 18 and c...
- Isar Aerospace Signs 10-Year Nova Scotia Spectrum Deal With Maritime Launch — — Isar Aerospace and Maritime Launch Services signed a 10-year facilities agreement to build a dedicated Spectrum launch complex at Spaceport Nova Scoti...
- Isar Aerospace Wins Planet Contract to Launch Pelican Satellite — — Isar Aerospace signed a launch contract with Planet Labs to fly a next-generation Pelican imaging satellite on its Spectrum rocket from Norway as earl...
- NewOrbit Raises $18.5M Series A to Open Very-Low Earth Orbit — — UK startup NewOrbit Space has closed an oversubscribed $18.5M Series A led by Voyager Ventures to commercialise its NEO-1 spacecraft, the first satell...
- MDA Space Wins CSA Contract for RADARSAT Replenishment Satellite — — The Canadian Space Agency has tapped MDA Space to build a next-generation CHORUS-based SAR satellite to replenish the RADARSAT Constellation Mission.
- Satellogic and SynMax Team Up on AI Geospatial Intelligence — — Satellogic and SynMax announced a strategic collaboration to deliver AI-powered geospatial intelligence for defense and intelligence customers, pairin...
- NASA Adds Eight Firms to Commercial Satellite Data Program — — NASA selected eight new companies and expanded buys from six existing holders under its Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program.
- ICEYE Raises €450M Series F at €10B Valuation for SAR Satellites — — Finland's ICEYE has raised EUR 450M (about $520M) in a General Atlantic-led Series F at a valuation above EUR 10 billion, scaling the world's largest...