Partners
Our partners play a crucial role in the development and success of the EarthDaily Constellation.
Satellite Bus & Operations
Who They Are
Airbus is a leader in designing, manufacturing, and delivering aerospace products, services, and solutions to customers on a worldwide scale. With around 134,000 employees and as the largest aeronautics and space company in Europe and a worldwide leader, Airbus is at the forefront of the aviation industry. Airbus has been helping to answer big questions from space and advance space exploration for more than 50 years. Supplying reliable systems that range from electronic components to full telecommunications relay platforms, scientific satellites, and crewed spacecraft, developing the technology to send spaceships to planets – Airbus provides solutions for customers and their programs around the globe.
What They’re Providing
Airbus is providing the Arrow satellite buses based on the flight-proven OneWeb bus that will carry the imaging payloads into low earth orbit, following specialized adaptation onto Loft Orbital’s Longbow platform.
How It Adds Value
As the spacecraft that will form the basis of each EarthDaily Constellation satellite and ferry the imaging components into low earth orbit and proper alignment with the rest of the Constellation, having a reliable, well-tested satellite bus is fundamental to ensuring a successful launch and successful long-term constellation operations. With more than 600 satellites already successfully in orbit, and built upon a legacy spanning decades, the Airbus Arrow platform provides EDA with a level of predictability and comfort rooted in
Who They Are
Loft Orbital deploys space infrastructure as a service, providing rapid, reliable, and simplified access to space.
What They’re Providing
Utilizing their proprietary Longbow platform and managing integration, testing, launches, and satellite operations, Loft provides EDA with a turnkey solution to accessing and utilizing the vast wealth of information provided by the EarthDaily Constellation.
How It Adds Value
The turnkey nature of Loft’s integrated product and service offering ensures that mission critical aspects of satellite assembly and operations are overseen and executed by specialists with extensive experience in precisely those areas, thereby enabling EDA to focus its efforts on its core competencies of Earth Observation, Change Detection, and Value-Added Analytics.
Optical Payload and Integration
Who They Are
ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The company’s solutions connect engineering know-how and software to optimize how things are manufactured, moved, powered, and operated. Building on more than 130 years of excellence, ABB’s 105,000 employees are committed to driving innovations that accelerate industrial transformation.
What They’re Providing
ABB is supplying high-resolution optical imagers spanning the visible spectrum and near-infrared (VNIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR), while also managing full payload integration, bringing together the electronic components and hardware that will transform EDA’s satellites into the uniquely powerful and well-equipped EarthDaily Constellation).
How It Adds Value
ABB-provided high-resolution imagers cover a wide range of the spectral bands selected to empower the EarthDaily Constellation’s unique Earth Observation and Change Detection capabilities, making it possible to detect the full visible spectrum (with applications including basic visible monitoring, plant health and soil moisture analysis, mineral composition, and others) near infrared (with applications including detection of organic content, crop stress, and atmospheric water vapor), and shortwave infrared (with applications including snow and ice discrimination, soil health measurement, atmospheric property analysis, and methane detection).
Additionally, by managing the payload integration process, ABB provides best-in-class engineering and an unmatched level of experience, ensuring that each payload will be optimally configured for a successful EarthDaily Constellation mission.
Who They Are
INO has been a world leader in high technology for the past 35 years and is the largest center of expertise in optics and photonics in Canada. Through multiple light applications, from laser and fiber optics technologies to imaging systems, INO controls light to capture, identify, predict, decide, or transform the real world.
What They’re Providing
INO is providing the thermal imaging detector, integrated filters, and control electronics for integration by ABB into the EarthDaily Constellation’s thermal camera.
How It Adds Value
Properly filtered and controlled thermal imaging capabilities enable the EarthDaily Constellation to detect and analyze diverse thermal phenomena directly or as an indication of a related event, including surface temperature and urban heat measurement, detection and characterization of wildfires and volcanos, and characterization of snow and ice.
Who They Are
Xiphos specializes in cutting-edge computing solutions for extreme space environments, developing advanced computing solutions tailored for extreme space environments. Leveraging automotive and industrial-grade components in a fault-tolerant architecture, Xiphos provides robust performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional space solutions.
By prioritizing compactness, energy efficiency, flexibility, and high performance, Xiphos offers effective alternatives to traditional flight processors for spacecraft, unmanned vehicles, robotics, launchers, and many other platforms. With Xiphos as a trusted technology partner, private enterprises can confidently scale their operations in LEO, knowing they are equipped with reliable, robust, high-performance, and cost-effective solutions that weather the harsh realities of space.
What They’re Providing
Xiphos provides the high-speed digital electronics subsystems that control the EarthDaily Constellation’s optical imagers, perform image processing, manage the substantial data volumes collected and stored onboard, and prepare the data for the spacecraft downlink system. Xiphos is also responsible for the image processing firmware and payload software.
How It Adds Value
Leveraging the performance, flexibility, and power efficiency of their latest generation of space processors, Xiphos will maximize the efficiency and volume of data extracted and processed from the EarthDaily Constellation’s powerful optical payloads to provide timely data products that differentiate EDA from their competition in the Earth Observation industry.
Launch
Who They Are
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, having established both the importance of private sector launch operations and its clear leadership role as the predominant global provider of satellite launch services.
What They’re Providing
With scheduled launches in 2024, SpaceX will carry the 10 EarthDaily Constellation satellites to low earth orbit aboard its Falcon 9 rockets.
How It Adds Value
The predominant provider of launch services to the satellite industry, SpaceX provides an unmatched level of expertise and a frequency of launches that will enable the EarthDaily Constellation to be in orbit and operational in 2024.
EarthPipeline – Powered by AWS
Who They Are
With the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the global leader in cloud computing technology.
What They’re Providing
The company is powering the cloud-based infrastructure for EarthPipeline, EarthDaily’s fully managed ground segment.
How It Adds Value
High resolution, multispectral monitoring of everywhere, every day translates into a phenomenally large stream of data to be transmitted, processed, and analyzed on a continuous and continually growing basis. By working with the world leader in cloud computing, EDA is able to provide its EarthPipeline with the endless scalability and bandwidth necessary to make the most of both the inbound datastream and the EarthPipeline’s AI-powered analytics capabilities.
Today’s Observation for Tomorrow’s Challenges.
EarthDaily Constellation is flying in 2024.