Satellogic is an Argentine company specialized in Earth-observation satellites, founded in 2010 by Emiliano Kargieman. Satellogic made Argentina's first two nanosatelites, CubeBug-1 and CubeBug-2. Their third satellite, BugSat 1, launched in June 2014. Both the CubeBug-1 and CubeBug-2 as well as the BugSat 1 satellite served as technology tests and demonstrations for the ÑuSat satellites. They also had Amateur radio payloads. The CubeBug project was sponsored by Argentinian Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation. Satellogic began launching their Aleph-1 constellation of ÑuSat satellites in May 2016. On 19 December 2019, Satellogic announced they have received $50 million in funding in the latest funding round.
History
In the summer of 2010, after spending some time at the NASA Ames Campus in Mountain View, Emiliano Kargieman started developing the concepts that would become Satellogic. He realized there was a great opportunity: to bring to the satellite services industry many of the lessons learned during the last two decades of working with Information Technology, and build a platform that provides spatial information services, without major investments in infrastructure. Together with his friend and colleague, Gerardo Richarte, they started Satellogic. Since 2010, the company has grown from a small start-up to a multinational company that has customers around the globe. Satellogic is backed by strategic and financial supporters including Tencent, the Inter-American Development Bank, Pitanga, Valor Capital Group, and CrunchFund, among others.
Technology
Satellogic is building a 90-satellite constellation as a scalable Earth observation platform with the ability to weekly remap the entire planet at high resolution to provide affordable geospatial insights for daily decision making. Satellogic created a small, light, and inexpensive system that can be produced at scale. Each commercial satellite carries two payloads – one for high resolution multispectral imaging and another one for a hyperspectral camera of 30m GSD and 150 km Swath.
Satellite specifications
Satellogic's satellites are built to the following specifications:
Size:
51 x 57 x 82 cm
Dry Mass:
38.5 kg
Wet Mass:
~45 kg
Development Cycle:
3 months
Design Life:
3 years
Products and services
Dedicated satellite constellations
Satellogic's markets "Dedicated Satellite Constellations" as an opportunity for customers to develop a national geospatial imaging program at unmatched frequency, resolution and cost. This program is aimed at municipal, state and national governments eager to gain exclusive control of a fleet of satellites over an area of interest. It can be used to support key decisions, to manage policy impact, to measure investment and socio-economic progress and to serve as an open environment to foster collaboration, data and information sharing. DSC’s satellites are registered and flagged by the operating entity. With complete control of the satellites over the designated area of interest, the operator will directly task the satellite from its own groundstation, allowing frequent remapping and the ability to revisit specific points of interest several times per day. Total control of imagery download and private cloud archiving guarantee prompt and secure data management by an operator’s own team. In 2019 Satellogic signed its first agreement to deliver a dedicated satellite constellation for exclusive geospatial analytics in Henan Province, China. DSC has been nominated for Via Satellite's "2019 Satellite Technology of the Year" Award.
, Satellogic has launched 10 satellites from China and Russia. While the first three spacecraft were early prototypes, the last seven satellites correspond to four consecutive iterations and incremental versions of Satellogic’s Newsat design.
