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24/03/2023

Check out today’s episode of New Space featuring BlackSky. We spoke to Amanda Marchetti, Director of Market Development, and Morgan Cox, Senior Director of Business Development, about how BlackSky simplifies the Earth Observation end-user experience.

Give the episode a listen here: https://explorenewspace.com/blog/de-cluttering-the-earth-observation-experience

We are happy to post this today following BlackSky’s successful satellite launch with Rocket Lab. Two satellites went up today, bringing their total to 16 out of 60 planned satellites.

A quick synopsis on the podcast:

Earth Observation (EO) data isn’t naturally user friendly – unless you’ve spent decades as an analyst, and even then, the analytics process is famously laborious.

That’s why BlackSky founded its business on simplifying EO access for end users.

With BlackSky’s platform, you can task a satellite to monitor exactly what you’re looking for, exactly where you’re looking for it.

And the data that’s captured and analyzed is about as easy to read as a weather chart on your smartphone.

Even you could be an EO genius with BlackSky.

Check out today’s episode to learn more.

02/03/2023

Check out today’s episode of New Space with Christopher Robson, co-founder and CEO of Wyvern, a Canadian company pioneering hyperspectral imagery from space.

https://explorenewspace.com/blog/looking-at-earth-through-new-eyes

A quick synopsis:

One of the most powerful advances in space observation is the launch of the Webb Space Telescope.

We can now see the incredible complexity and beauty of the universe much further out and in much greater resolution.

But the space industry is also inventing telescopes that orbit the Earth and peer deep into the natural world at the molecular level.

It’s called hyperspectral imaging, and it’s a whole new way of looking at sustainability issues across the agriculture, energy, mining, forestry, and other industries.

Enjoy!

23/02/2023

In today’s episode of the New Space podcast, we talk to Adam Bennett, Vice President of Marketing at HawkEye 360.

Here’s the link: https://explorenewspace.com/blog/rf-the-worlds-early-warning-system

The question we posed to Adam is this:

How do you pinpoint bad actors across the remote stretches of our planet?

HawkEye 360’s answer is to look at RF data as early and often as possible.

It can spot the first sign of illegal fishing activity. Present the first glimpse of something new and unusual along a border.

It’s not just another data feed. It’s your early morning read. Your eyes and ears tuned ever so vigilantly to the earliest signals of need-to-know activity under your watch.

Enjoy the episode!

08/02/2023

Hey everyone, in the latest episode of New Space we talk to Eric Cote, Director of Data and Analytics Services at Ursa Space Systems.

Check it out here: https://explorenewspace.com/blog/why-not-get-all-the-eo-data

Here’s a teaser:

If you’re looking for data from space to illuminate life on Earth, you’re in luck.

Today, there’s a wealth of Earth Observation data sources to choose from. It’s hard to pick just one flavor. In fact, you shouldn’t.

You need a well-balanced mix of RF, SAR, high-res and low-res photography, and other data modalities to see the full picture of critical events on Earth.

That’s why Ursa’s constellation is actually a virtual constellation. They source Earth Observation data from multiple third-party constellations and focus on how to blend millions of Earth pixels into powerful insights.

In today’s episode of New Space, we talk to Eric Cote, Director of Data & Analytic Services at Ursa Space Systems, about how their virtual constellation model reveals deeper insights about our physical world.

19/01/2023

On today’s episode on New Space, we talk to Mark Carmichael, Satellogic's Senior Director of Business Development.

The topic: How to lower the cost of accessing Earth Observation data.

The Earth Observation market has been growing strong and steady, despite some cooling down on the investment front.

The value prop is exceedingly clear: commercial access to images from space that shed new light on global issues back on Earth – from defense to shipping to farming to you name it.

But if the Earth Observation market is to reach mass adoption, we need cost normalization.

And that’s the very mission of Satellogic.

Mark Carmichael explains Satellogic’s plan to bring Earth Observation data within reach for a community hungry for this new line of insight.

You can listen here: https://explorenewspace.com/blog/space-for-everyone

14/12/2022

In today’s episode of New Space, we talk to Donald Osborne, the CEO of EarthDaily Analytics, about the importance of image quality when it comes to change detection using Earth Observation data.

According to EarthDaily Analytics: “Remote sensing specialists and data scientists routinely report that they spend as much as 80% of their time as ‘data hygienists’ dealing with quality issues and normalizing different data sets.”

The company has a plan to change that. They’re sending a new constellation into space with satellites that can capture 22 spectral bands. These satellites will scan the Earth each day, revisiting the same location at the same time from the same perspective.

Then data from their constellation is calibrated and processed to reach the level of quality analysts needs to detect real change, not to be fooled by a change in image quality.

Please click below to listen to our conversation with Don.

In this episode with Don Osborne, CEO of EarthDaily Analytics, we talk about the critical importance of image quality to detect change through Earth Observation data.

08/11/2022

In today’s episode of the New Space podcast, we talk to Jamie Conklin, head of product at Astraea.

Astraea solves a major problem related to Earth Observation (EO) data: how to find what you’re looking for.

Imagine the Internet without Google’s search tool. Well, the growing web of EO data needs a search tool as well.

To help customers reach their mission or business goals, Astraea helps sift through myriad sources and categories of EO data – and provides data subscriptions and custom analytics.

“We can come in and say, ‘Don’t worry about all that. Just tell me: What are your problems? And let us help you figure out how to solve them,’” Jamie says. “I feel like it makes this world seem a little bit smaller and little bit easier to answer questions in.”

Click below to get the rest of the story.

26/10/2022

26/10/2022

Here’s today’s New Space episode: Wi-Fi in the Sky.

We sat down with Dave Bettinger, CEO of SpaceLink, to discuss his vision for a high-speed communications relay system to get data from LEO satellites down to Earth in milliseconds. Check it out!

https://explorenewspace.com/blog/wi-fi-in-the-sky

24/10/2022

Don't miss episode one!

12/10/2022

We are thrilled to introduce a new podcast on the space industry. New Space covers the innovative companies, courageous leaders, and amazing feats of engineering that are helping take human ambition and life into space.

Every two weeks we will release a new episode. In episode one, we feature Joel Sercel, president and CEO of TransAstra. Joel and his team are developing a whole new way to propel spacecraft, advance asteroid mining, and transform space logistics.

A more economical and powerful mode of space logistics will encourage companies to push telecom, cloud infrastructure, and even manufacturing into space, followed by massive space exploration and colonization.

Please click below to listen to episode one.