Tag: Earth observation

Pixxel, a hyperspectral imagery startup, has received a $36 million investment from Google to enhance its remote sensing and analytics capabilities. Meanwhile, NASA and Boeing face further delays to their Starliner capsule crewed flight test due to recent technical issues. Safety remains top priority for the companies and the industry in general as it moves forward with space exploration.

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Discover how Chinese researchers have enabled an innovative technique to launch satellites with AI and the impacts it could have on surveillance. Find out how a team at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing put an AI-powered Qimingxing 1 satellite into orbit to identify important geographic regions and capture images of Patna, India and Osaka, Japan.

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has achieved excellence in space technology with the successful launch of its second nanosatellite, the DEWA SAT-2. Loaded on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, the DEWA SAT-2 is designed to support earth observation missions to improve DEWA's maintenance, planning, and operations of electricity and water networks. DEWA has shown commitment to 4th Industrial Revolution technology, improved customer services and asset investment levels -all thanks to their cutting-edge satellite and cloud computing resources.

DEWA Sat-2 is a nanosatellite in development that will launch in April 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base. DEWA's Space-D program, in partnership with NanoAvionics, uses a high-resolution camera to observe Earth and detect greenhouse gases. By using Nanosatellite and IoT, DEWA plans to enhance their infrastructure projects like their largest solar park in the world and make Dubai carbon-neutral by 2050.