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December 16, 2025
Outage Prevention from Orbit: Why Utilities Are Turning to Satellites and Geospatial Analytics

Perrysburg OH (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
Utilities and local energy distribution companies (LDCs) face ongoing challenges in managing their infrastructure. Keeping track of power lines, pipelines, energy plant emissions, and other assets is essential to prevent power outages, wildfires, broken power lines, and methane leaks. Rather than waiting for the next disaster, LDCs are using satellites to deliver high-resolution imagery for AI-powered spatial analytics, offering a bird's-eye view to detect issues before they become disasters. ... read more
SkyFi and ICEYE US roll out direct tasking platform for SAR satellite imagery
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
SkyFi and ICEYE US have introduced ICEYE US Direct, a SkyFi-built and operated online platform that gives ICEYE US customers direct, on-demand access to ICEYE's Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite co ... more
LizzieSat 3 completes bus commissioning for multi mission AI operations
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Sidus Space has completed bus-level commissioning of its LizzieSat-3 spacecraft, confirming that the satellite's core systems are operational in orbit and ready to support customer missions. LS-3 is ... more
NASA backs CINEMA smallsat fleet to probe Earth magnetotail
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
NASA has selected Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to begin developing a mission that will shed more light on the growing impacts of spac ... more
New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2025
Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth's surface some ... more
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Aechelon links Vantor 3D terrain with Orbion SkyBeam to boost ICEYE SAR AI
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Aechelon Technology has completed a proof-of-concept integration of Vantor's 3D Operational Terrain into its Project Orbion SkyBeam AI exploitation system, using ICEYE's space-based synthetic apertu ... more
Gilat wins 10 million dollar order for transportable direct downlink earth observation system
London, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has secured an order of about 10 million dollars for a customized Earth observation direct downlink solution to be delivered over the next 12 months. The contract was a ... more
IHI SAT2 hyperspectral CubeSat enters orbit to support forest monitoring and carbon data
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
IHI-SAT2, a hyperspectral 6U CubeSat built by Kongsberg NanoAvionics for Japan's IHI Corporation, has reached orbit and established two-way communications shortly after deployment from a SpaceX Falc ... more
EarthCARE mission tightens cloud and aerosol impacts in next-generation climate models
Paris (ESA) Dec 08, 2025
True to its promise, the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite is now being used to directly quantify how clouds and airborne particles reshape the balance between incoming sunlight and outgoi ... more
Italian Earth observation fleet gains eight new IRIDE satellites
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
Italy's IRIDE Earth observation programme has expanded with the launch of eight Eaglet II satellites, adding a second constellation to the growing national fleet. The spacecraft rode into orbit on a ... more
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Sentinel-5 debuts images of atmospheric gases
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first results, including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, ... more
Copernicus Sentinel-6B enters operational phase as EUMETSAT takes command
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
EUMETSAT's Mission Control Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, is now operating the Copernicus Sentinel-6B satellite, marking the beginning of its mission to monitor sea level and support climate science. ... more
NASA, Aerospace Corporation Study Sharpens Focus on Ammonia Emissions
Pasadena, CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
The pungent gas contributes to fine airborne particulate pollution, which endangers human health when inhaled and absorbed in the bloodstream. A recent study led by scientists at NASA's Jet Pr ... more
Farms show potential as large-scale tool for climate mitigation in QUT led research
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
A recent international study led by Queensland University of Technology presents a quantitative framework for evaluating how plant agriculture and synthetic biology might help mitigate climate chang ... more
NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2025
While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmos ... more
Mitigating radio frequency interference in US weather satellites

Albany NY (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration prepares to launch the next generation of satellites responsible for U.S. weather forecasting and climate monitoring, it's asking researchers for help ensuring accurate measurements in the face of growing radio frequency interference from wireless technologies. Mustafa Aksoy, an associate professor in UAlbany's College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering, is part of a large research team that was awarded a two-year, $1.1 million grant ... read more
Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder Set for Launch Following Final Testing Phase
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
Spire Global, Inc. has completed environmental testing, calibration, and flight qualification for its Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) payload, which is now integrated into a Spire 16U satelli ... more

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Copernicus Sentinel-6B begins mission to advance ocean science
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 17, 2025
Copernicus Sentinel-6B launched today, 17 November, at 06:21 CET aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. ... more
Brazil gears up to harness ESA's Biomass data
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2025
As the COP30 climate conference gets underway in Brazil, the world's attention is once again drawn to the plight of the Amazon - the planet's largest and most vital rainforest. With the European Spa ... more
CSES satellite tracks shifting South Atlantic anomaly and impact on solar cycle twenty five
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 14, 2025
The South Atlantic anomaly represents the region of Earth's radiation belts with the highest particle concentrations and weakest geomagnetic shielding. This area poses risks to the electronics aboar ... more
SkyFi adds ICEYE radar imaging to satellite tasking platform
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2025
SkyFi has announced that ICEYE US synthetic aperture radar data will be integrated into its platform. This development allows SkyFi users to directly access and task ICEYE's large SAR satellite cons ... more
S&P Global finalizes deal for ORBCOMM satellite vessel tracking network
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2025
S&P Global has completed the acquisition of the Automatic Identification System business from ORBCOMM. The AIS division operates a global constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, enabling real-t ... more
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