Europe, United States
Private players wrestle for contracts in burgeoning market for thermal imagery

United Kingdom
London continues to pick Europe and US for its space projects

The British Space Agency’s (UKSA) announcement on 23 July of a new round of contracts, worth a total of £33m (€39m), confirms the UK's initial geopolitical orientation following the arrival of the Labour government.

United States
Pentagon carefully selects what imagery from Earth observation gem Albedo is for sale

The Earth observation start-up is preparing to put the first satellite of its 10-cm imagery constellation into orbit next year. But the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have already bagged the imagery of key strategic zones, meaning it will not be made publicly available for sale.

United States
NRO heavyweight joins Stellar to boost interception satellite programmes

Chad Davis has joined Stellar Solutions, a service provider to the agency that operates US intelligence satellites and that has also set up a fund to invest in key players in the geospatial intelligence industry.

China, Europe, United States
Disruptive weather ahead, part 3: the private sector takes position

Against the backdrop of wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and rivalries in the Indo-Pacific and Arctic, having sovereign weather capabilities is once again a priority for Beijing and Washington as they can leverage the data with their allies.

Israel, United States
Hamas attack in Gaza puts US imagery rules to the test

Recent conflicts, especially Ukraine, have accustomed consumers to a drumbeat of precise spatial imagery. But the Hamas offensive reasserts the particular nature of Israeli territory in US law.

The Agencies' Gazette
Yulia Shoigu, Akhmed Zakayev, NGA drops analogue imaging, NATO, Bernard Emié

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

Moscow Defence minister puts daughter in charge of veteran aid fund

Kyiv Akhmed Zakayev's Chechen armed wing gets its baptism of fire

Springfield Final curtain for analogue imagery

Brussels NATO looks for help on Russia analysis

France DGSE director, diplomat Bernard Emié, opts for state administror status

China, United States
Radio silence from operators on solar storm damage to observation satellites

Solar storms this year have resulted in the loss of numerous images from intelligence satellites. But so far, the satellites' operators are keeping mum about that massive reduction in capacity.

The Tech Telegraph
RB 42's contracts, Luxemburg spy satellite, USA-Taiwan cyber cooperation

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

ParisRB 42, European cyber ecosytem pioneer

LuxembourgArianespace's Vega-C launcher rocket leaves spy satellite in the lurch

Washington/TaipeiLobbying in Congress for cybersecurity rapprochement with Taiwan

France
France's Share My Space promotes tools for safe space navigation

The increasing number of space objects above Europe's skies is becoming as much a safety issue as a logistical hurdle that Share My Space would like to address. The French start-up is bidding on a space surveillance tender financed by the government.

France
Avascent takes off into New Space focussing on intelligence

US specialist in due diligence on high-profile companies, Avascent, has been commissioned to carry out an assignment on a French start-up that is working in space intelligence. The request reflects the race for funds in which this niche market's main players are currently engaged.

United States
Obama's GEOINT chiefs pursue private roles while waiting in the wings

Key geospatial intelligence chiefs who rose to prominence during the Obama administration, when James Clapper was Director of National Intelligence, are now working in the private sector while they await the outcome of next year's presidential elections.