Orbital Sidekick: Taking hyperspectral imaging from the garage to the Pentagon
"Hyperspectral is kind of starting to have its moment in the sun, so to speak," said Dan Katz, CEO and co-founder of Orbital Sidekick.
"Hyperspectral is kind of starting to have its moment in the sun, so to speak," said Dan Katz, CEO and co-founder of Orbital Sidekick.
Under a new grant, the company will demonstrate to the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center its ability to take very high resolution images at night using a thermal infrared sensor.
While the company currently is using already available data from satellites like NASA's Landsat and ESA's Sentinel-2, Hydrosat also intends to launch its own constellation of 16 microsats to low Earth orbit (LEO).
Not all analysts charged with space-related intel work at the legacy NASIC will move to the new office, sources tell Breaking Defense.
HPSCI cites the "increasingly complex" space environment as the rationale for the new National Space Intelligence Center.
"While our adversaries have rapidly advanced a great spectrum of threats ... that are intended to defeat US space capabilities, we're only beginning to get our act together," said Jeff Gossel, senior intelligence engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).
"I want to be able to identify what [the threat] is, I want to be able to attribute it to whomever is the adversary that's taken that shot, as an example, and then, I've got to be able to share that information," says Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback, who heads the ISR Directorate.