Eartheye Space reveals contract with Asia-Pacific customer

SAN FRANCISCO – Eartheye Space will pool data from hundreds of Earth-observation satellites to provide imagery and data to a customer in the Asia-Pacific region.

“All Earth observation sensors, including both imaging and non-imaging sensors, are provided under the contract,” which promises multi-sensor tasking, according to the Eartheye Space news release. The contract covers imagery with a resolution as high as 15 centimeters per pixel.

Eartheye Space is not revealing the name of the customer seeking imagery and data over land and water, nor the contract value. Shankar Sivaprakasam, Eartheye Space founder and CEO, said the contract was an important milestone for the startup, based in Singapore and Australia, which operates an online platform for satellite tasking.

“We have built and continue to build a world-class multi-sensor tasking platform with AI-led information extraction capabilities,” Sivaprakasam said in a statement. “We are excited that the customer has chosen to partner with us. Having this customer, along with some of the other large and small clients from around the world, is a testament to the unique situational awareness capability on land and water we offer.”

Eartheye Space, founded in 2022, initially offered tasking of Earth-observation satellites operated by partners. In September, at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia, Eartheye Space announced plans to offer self-service tasking of satellites looking into space in addition to sensors focused on Earth.

Eartheye Space customers can task more than 500 satellites operated by commercial organizations and governments around the world, Sivaprakasam said in a recent interview. Government and defense customers provide about 75 percent of Eartheye Space’s revenue with commercial organizations accounting for the remaining 25 percent.

“On the back of the data, our secret sauce is delivering that information within a few minutes,” Sivaprakasam said at the International Astronautical Congress.