The bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, 12 August 2026

News and articles

Announcements and partnerships, and longer pieces on how Earth observation data gets used.

Sentinel-2 image of the dark water of the Rio Negro meeting the pale brown Solimões at Manaus, the two flowing side by side without mixing, with the city on the north bank and forest and floodplain to the south. The meeting of the waters at Manaus, Brazil, 26 August 2026

5 Oct 2026 · Vinay Williams

Data Sphere is open

From today Data Sphere is open to everyone, with commercial satellite imagery from several providers through one API and licences the platform enforces.
Sentinel-2 image of Victoria Harbour, with Kowloon to the north, Hong Kong Island and its wooded hills to the south, and ships at anchor in the western harbour. Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, 13 January 2026

5 Oct 2026 · Vinay Williams

Orbview imagery is on Data Sphere

Data Sphere now searches Orbview's archive of very-high-resolution optical imagery from the SuperView and Beijing-3 constellations, down to 30 cm.
Sentinel-2 image of Boulder, Colorado, where the forested foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the city, its reservoirs and the dry plains to the east. Boulder and the Front Range, Colorado, 2 October 2026

5 Oct 2026 · Vinay Williams

Vantor imagery is on Data Sphere

Data Sphere now supplies imagery from Vantor, formerly Maxar Intelligence, including WorldView imagery down to 30 cm.
Sentinel-2 image of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, with the brown heath of Goonhilly Downs, home to Goonhilly Earth Station, among green fields, and turquoise sea along the coast. Goonhilly Downs and the Lizard, Cornwall, 19 March 2026

12 Aug 2025 · Stuart Allan

Strategic Partnership Announcement: Astro Dynamic x Pan Galactic

Secure, Scalable Space-Enabled Intelligence
Sentinel-2 image of Luxembourg City, with wooded valleys winding through the city, the airport runway to the north-east and harvested fields all around. Luxembourg City, 14 August 2026

14 Jul 2025 · Stuart Allan

Astro Dynamic and Mission Space have entered a strategic partnership.

Combining our strengths in delivering actionable space-derived intelligence.
Sentinel-2 image of the Øresund Bridge running from the artificial island of Peberholm to Malmö, with the island of Saltholm to the north and the edge of Copenhagen Airport on the left. The Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden, 25 May 2026

5 Feb 2025 · Stuart Allan

High Trust + Low Productivity or Low Trust + High Productivity?

Is it better to be a high productivity or high trust founder?
Sentinel-2 image of the Nardò test track in Puglia, a ring about 4 km across among red-brown fields and olive groves, with the Ionian coast in the bottom corner. The Nardò test track, Puglia, Italy, 5 September 2026

28 Jan 2025 · Stuart Allan

Investors Want Traction

(Or They Don’t Want to Spend Their Money)
Sentinel-2 image of the bulb fields around Lisse in the Netherlands, in strips of red, pink, yellow and green, with dunes along the North Sea to the north-west. Bulb fields near Lisse, the Netherlands, 21 April 2026

28 Jan 2025 · Stuart Allan

The Modern Moral Business Founder

Rethinking Growth, Investment, and Values

Articles

How the imagery gets used, sector by sector.

  1. Climate risk intelligence from space Satellite data for sustainable finance and policy.
  2. Geospatial intelligence in finance Monitoring economic activity from space.
  3. Glacier and water risk Tracking glaciers and the water that flows from them, for insurers and lenders.
  4. Security and intelligence from orbit Monitoring critical infrastructure, understanding events and checking reports with satellite imagery under auditable licences.
  5. Energy infrastructure from orbit Oil terminal storage and solar park construction, seen from space.
  6. Viridien shipwreck spill detection How geospatial data can help identify hidden oil spills from shipwrecks.
  7. Smart farming with satellite data Enhancing crop monitoring and yield forecasts.
  8. Maritime chokepoints Watching canal traffic and shipping queues from orbit.
  9. Commodities and mining from orbit How satellite imagery shows supply at lithium brine ponds, gold pits and iron ore mines.