{"id":126985,"date":"2025-09-02T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126985\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:36:12","slug":"european-customer-leases-si-imaging-services-spaceeye-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126985\/","title":{"rendered":"European customer leases SI Imaging Services&#8217; SpaceEye-T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 South Korea\u2019s SI Imaging Services announced a contract Sept. 2 to lease the capacity of Earth-observation satellite SpaceEye-T to a European customer under a contract with a value of more than 10 million euros ($11.7 million).<\/p>\n<p>SpaceEye-T, an optical satellite offering native resolution of 25 centimeters per pixel, reached orbit in March on a SpaceX Transporter-13 <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/intelligence-and-dual-use-commercial-satellites-launch-on-transporter-13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rideshare<\/a>. Satrec Initiative, SI Imaging Services\u2019 parent company, developed and owns SpaceEye-T.<\/p>\n<p>The lease to the undisclosed European customer is the latest example of the growing popularity of the Satellite-as-a-Service model.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rsz_ce7b53ab-6e79-4034-9b0a-c36d7dfa2e9f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-548571\"  \/>SpaceEye-T imagery of Saudia Arabia\u2019s Jeddah airport.  Credit: SI Imaging Services<\/p>\n<p>The Satellite-as-a-Service model \u201coffers clear advantages in terms of data accessibility and security, with global demand rising rapidly,\u201d SI Imaging Services CEO Moongyu Kim said in a statement. \u201cThe agreement shows that SpaceEye-T has earned international trust, marking a significant step in joining the global space industry trend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SI Imaging Services <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/si-imaging-services-to-offer-leasing-of-high-resolution-imaging-satellite\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advertised plans to lease<\/a> the SpaceEye-T satellite in a March 30 post on Instagram. \u201cWith end-to-end encryption &amp; automated data deletion, even SI Imaging Services cannot access your tasking records,\u201d according to the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers can gain exclusive access to the satellite\u2019s image tasking capacity without the need to own the satellite,\u201d according to the SI Imaging Services Sept. 2 news release. \u201cIt enables customers to capture imagery over their regions of interest and receive data in near real-time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/debra-werner\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/debra_werner-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDebra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nDebra earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master\u2019s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/debra-werner\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Debra Werner\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 South Korea\u2019s SI Imaging Services announced a contract Sept. 2 to lease the capacity of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[24170,80996,79,80997,722,1866,193,80998],"class_list":["post-126985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-earth-observation","tag-satrec-initiative","tag-science","tag-si-imaging-services","tag-sn","tag-south-korea","tag-space","tag-space-as-a-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}