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Field covering satellites and remote-sensing systems that image Earth's surface, oceans, and atmosphere to track environmental and climate change.
ESA's Sentinel-3C satellite has begun measuring ocean heights and Greenland ice-sheet elevation two weeks after reaching orbit. The agency still expects another five months of testing and commissioning before full operation.
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Mistral AI has joined the Altair-Next Gen consortium, whose initial phase plans 50 satellites that run AI inference in orbit. The first AI satellite is due in October 2026, but pricing, eligibility and latency figures are still unpublished.
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Temasek and Seraphim co-led the largest round India's private space sector has recorded. The six satellites and the software platform it buys against carry a valuation that published accounts put anywhere between $400m and $500m.
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Copernicus's Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from two of its key instruments two weeks after launch. It is the third satellite in the series and carries the same instruments as the others, so users of its sea, ice and land data have early evidence the record will continue once commissioning ends.
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Korea's Nuri rocket placed 15 satellites at about 575 km on its fifth flight, five of them the first home-launched NEONSAT Earth-observation microsatellites. The other half of the 10-satellite constellation, and the coverage it was designed for, waits on a sixth flight next year.
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Earth Fire Alliance launched the first three of 50 planned FireSat satellites on July 7, a fleet built only to find wildfires. Its promised scan of every point on Earth every 20 minutes depends on the other 47 reaching orbit.
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The round takes Pixxel to $195m, well past what European rivals raising at Univity's EUR 27m scale can put behind a sovereign bid. It arrived after the NRO and India's own regulator had already signed.
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The new altimeter has been sending low-latency measurements since July 15, but NOAA's operational ocean heat suite is only targeted to start using its ocean height data by the end of the year, so this El Nino is being forecast on the record that already existed.
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Loft Orbital and Marlan Space put 40 more satellites behind a $1bn figure that four outlets describe four different ways. What a customer buys is a slot on a shared satellite running a model picked from an app store.
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Gulf space money is moving off government budget lines and onto corporate balance sheets, where Space42's venture with Viasat now sits. KPMG's projection to 2034 is for slower growth than the decade behind it.
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S-AIDC's Supercomputing-1 pairs an optical camera with an AI computer so only selected detections travel down to the ground. CAS Space puts the cross-region gain at hours to minutes, with no operating results published.
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NASA Earth Observatory's map of September 15 pairs satellite data with the GEOS model to show air approaching 40 degrees Celsius across the south-central states. The 41 million figure beside it counts residents of National Weather Service alert areas.
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The Harwell company says five profitable years and more than $370M of signed contracts back the round, and the concrete gain it can show is Earth observation intelligence arriving in 30 minutes, down from up to 48 hours.
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The delivery annex gives every programme a budget, an owning body and a financial year between 2026/27 and 2029/30, and its biggest line is £2.3bn for the military satellite communications work the projects authority rated red in July.
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Delegations from about 120 countries came to Paris to talk business, with SpaceX and Blue Origin absent. What Europe wants to own is the imaging and connectivity it currently buys from American firms.
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A new policy brief argues Europe's forest reporting counts area and biomass well and regrowth barely at all. It stops short of naming the threshold that would turn a declining satellite signal into a trigger for action.
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IIASA traces this year's Danube low water from an April-July rainfall deficit through soils that began drying in March, four months before the river made it unmistakable.
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