Satellogic


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.

Data services

Satellogic offers 1-meter resolution multispectral imaging and 30-meter resolution hyperspectral satellite imagery.

Geospatial analytics

Satellogic's data science and AI team convert images into layers available as data-services in its online platform, including object identification, classification, semantic change detection and predictive models within a broad range of industries including agriculture, forestry, energy, finance & insurance, as well as applications for the civilian area of governments, such as cartography, environmental monitoring and critical infrastructure, among others.

Offices

Satellogic's R&D facility is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The AIT facility is located in Montevideo, Uruguay. The data-technology center in Barcelona, Spain; a product-development center in Tel Aviv, Israel; a finance office in Charlotte, USA, and there are business development centers in Miami, USA, and Beijing, China.

Satellite launches

, 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.
SatelliteLaunch VehicleLaunch Base LocationLaunch Date
Longmarch-2Jiuquan, ChinaApril 26, 2013
DneprYasny, RusiaNovember 21, 2013
DneprYasny, RusiaJune 19, 2014

Longmarch-4BTaiyuan, ChinaMay 30, 2016
Longmarch-4BJiuquan, ChinaJune 15, 2017

Longmarch-2DTaiyuan, ChinaFebruary 2, 2018

Longmarch-2DTaiyuan, ChinaJanuary 15, 2020
NewSat-6, Hypatia*VegaKourou, French GuianaTBD 2020

* Since 2018, Satellogic has a tradition of naming their spacecraft after important women scientists.

Mission patches