{"id":177061,"date":"2025-09-29T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177061\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:54:06","slug":"eartheye-to-offer-tasking-of-satellites-looking-up-and-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177061\/","title":{"rendered":"Eartheye to offer tasking of satellites looking up and down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Australia \u2014 Eartheye Space will begin offering self-service tasking of satellites looking into space in addition to sensors focused on Earth, the startup based in Singapore and Australia announced Sept. 29 at the International Astronautical Congress here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers on a single platform in a single workflow can decide to look down or look up,\u201d Shankar Sivaprakasam, Eartheye Space founder and CEO, told SpaceNews. \u201cWe want to make space situational awareness from space easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By offering tasking of sensors focused on deep space as well as cameras designed for space domain and space situational awareness, Eartheye Space seeks to simplify access to imagery and information.<\/p>\n<p>Eartheye Space, founded in 2022,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/eartheye-space-raises-1-5-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised $1.5 million<\/a> in pre-seed funding in 2024 to expand its online satellite-tasking platform. The company\u2019s goal is to serve as the \u201cUber Eats\u201d of Earth and space data.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can task more than 500 satellites operated by commercial organizations and governments around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t own any of these assets,\u201d Sivaprakasam said. \u201cWe just have a very smart software platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to acquiring imagery, customers can order data extracted automatically from observations including oil spills, forests, floods or illegal transshipments. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the back of the data, our secret sauce is delivering that information within a few minutes,\u201d Sivaprakasam said. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY, Australia \u2014 Eartheye Space will begin offering self-service tasking of satellites looking into space in addition to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,114651,114652,114653,128,7410,285,1483],"class_list":{"0":"post-177061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-eartheye-space","11":"tag-iac","12":"tag-international-astronautical-congress","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-sn","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-startups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}