Satellogic

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.[5] 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,[6] they started Satellogic.

Since 2010, the company has grown from a small start-up to a multinational company that has customers around the globe.[7][8]

Satellogic is backed by strategic and financial supporters including Tencent (China), the Inter-American Development Bank (US), Pitanga (Brazil), Valor Capital Group (US), and CrunchFund (US), among others.[9]

NewSat Satellite

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.[10][11]

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 (at a 470 km flying altitude).[12]

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.[23]

As of May 2020, Satellogic has launched 10 satellites[24] 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 (Mark I to Mark IV).

^* Since 2018, Satellogic has a tradition of naming their spacecraft after important women scientists.[25]

• Ada and Maryam were named for mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Maryam Mirzakhani.
• Sophie and Marie were named in honor of Sophie Germain, the mathematician and physicist, and Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist.
• Hypatia was named after the philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria and was a symbol of learning and science.

• ÑuSat