Satellogic

In the summer of 2010, after spending some time at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, 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 (U.S.), Pitanga (Brazil), Valor Capital Group (U.S.), and CrunchFund (U.S.), among others.[9]

ÑuSat 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 30 m GSD and 150 km swath (at a 470 km altitude).[12]

Satellogic's R&D facilities are located in Buenos Aires and Córdoba, 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, United States, and there are business development centers in Miami, United States, and Beijing, China.[23]

As of November 2020, Satellogic has launched 21 satellites [24] from China and Russia and French Guiana. While the first three spacecraft were early prototypes, the latest eight satellites correspond to four consecutive iterations and incremental versions of Satellogic's ÑuSat 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.

On 19 January 2021, it was announced that SpaceX would become their preferred rideshare vendor, the first due in June 2021.[26]

Mission patches

• ÑuSat