On March 24, executives from across the space industry and officials from dozens of countries filed into NASA’s Washington headquarters, unsure what they had been called to hear. The agency had announced the event — dubbed “Ignition” — only a day earlier, offering few details beyond a vague promise to discuss the implementation of a […]

Two European countries signed the Artemis Accords May 4 as part of a surge of countries joining in the wake of the Artemis 2 mission.

The agency established a three-tier cybersecurity classification system for commercial data vendors

DENVER – NATO must update policies and strengthen relationships among allies to accelerate the fusion of commercial and national geospatial intelligence, Maj. Gen. Paul Lynch, NATO deputy assistant secretary general for intelligence, said May 4 at the GEOINT Symposium. The war in Ukraine demonstrated the promise of “rapid continuous fusion of national intelligence across 32 […]

Indian hyperspectral imaging startup Pixxel plans to test orbital data center technology on a pathfinder satellite designed to deliver geospatial intelligence directly from space.

Director Stephen Winchell says the agency is eyeing a cislunar navigation challenge and is exploring asteroid resource concepts

Every generation reshapes how civilization moves goods. Container ships revolutionized the mid-20th century, computing the late 20th century, and as we entered the new millennium so did the internet, and now reusable rockets. Each unlocked new levels of speed, and capability and markets. The next logistics layer isn’t yet widely known, but it is happening.   Since February, more than 600 vessels are stalled in the Persian Gulf, unable to transit the Strait […]

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, or InSAR, enables automated detection of surface changes

SAN FRANCISCO – The first global dataset showing the boundaries of agricultural fields was released in late April, after an 18-month campaign by geospatial experts in industry and academia. The initiative, led by the nonprofit Taylor Geospatial and Microsoft AI for Good Lab, produced an open and publicly available dataset with applications for food security, […]