DigitalGlobe unveils subscription service for tasking Earth-imaging satellites without ground station

DigitalGlobe is expanding its product line to include a new multi-year subscription service that allows customers to focus the company’s high-resolution optical imaging satellites on targets of interest without paying to own and operate a ground station.

DigitalGlobe brings WorldView-4 imagery into SecureWatch, prepares to add Radarsat-2 data

Customers of SecureWatch, DigitalGlobe’s geospatial intelligence subscription service, now have access to imagery from the company’s WorldView-4 high resolution optical imaging satellite launched in 2016.

Intelligence community, companies give out satellite imagery to motivate app developers

The remote sensing industry is trying to contribute to “global transparency,” said Walter Scott, chief technology officer of Maxar Technologies and founder of DigitalGlobe.

Satellite operators, data analysts agree on need for speed

Geospatial data companies are focusing intently on acquiring satellite imagery quickly and speeding data delivery to customers.

NGA assembles jigsaw puzzle of diverse commercial, government geospatial data sets

"We are trying to effectively link air, land, sea and space. The geospatial context on the ground may give you some type of indications and warning of something happening in space," said Chirag Parikh, director of NGA's Office of Source Strategies.

SmallSat Responsible Revolution: CSCA Canadian SmallSat Symposium 2018

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Meet Maxar, the space industry’s newest tech giant

MDA’s $2.4 billion merger with DigitalGlobe is the biggest space acquisition to close so far this year. But MDA Corp. CEO Howard Lance sees the merger as the combination of four companies, not two.

Raytheon moves into commercial imaging market with DigitalGlobe camera order

DigitalGlobe’s selection of Raytheon Space Systems to manufacture high-resolution imagers for the WorldView Legion constellation shows Raytheon is making headway in its effort to use expertise honed through decades of government work to attract commercial customers.

MDA closes DigitalGlobe merger, rebrands as Maxar Technologies

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates completed its $2.4 billion purchase of DigitalGlobe Oct. 5, and will rebrand the combined company as Maxar Technologies.

MDA-DigitalGlobe Merger expected to close first week of October

MDA Corp. and DigitalGlobe expect to complete their $2.4 billion merger late next week, the companies said Sept. 28.

MDA slashes GEO order expectations

Commercial satellite operators will probably order half as many geosynchronous satellites this year than usual, deepening a drought that has affected satellite manufacturers for the past two years, MDA Corp. President and CEO Howard Lance said July 28.

MDA withdraws, resubmits paperwork for DigitalGlobe acquisition

Satellite manufacturer and hardware provider MDA Corp. and Earth-observation company DigitalGlobe have re-submitted paperwork to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) after cancelling the original version.

MDA seeks to provide extensive support to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — MDA Corp.’s pending acquisition of DigitalGlobe will enhance the firm’s ability to offer U.S. defense and intelligence agencies not only imagery, but analysis and answers, said Rob Zit…

U.S. government should reduce impediments to commercial space innovation

Relaxing regulations and lowering some of the hurdles that discourage private firms from working with federal agencies would bolster innovation, according to panelists at the 2017 GEOINT Symposium.

DigitalGlobe adding Radarsat imagery to geospatial big data platform

DigitalGlobe announced plans June 5 to augment its cloud-based geospatial big data platform, GBDX, with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from Radarsat-2, a satellite launched in 2007 by the Canadian Space Agency and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, the firm that announced plans in February to acquire DigitalGlobe.