Marcus Chevitarese, former deputy engineering director of Raytheon’s vision systems business, has joined satellite technology maker Umbra Lab as engineering vice president, SpaceNews reported Thursday.

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Maxar Technologies and Umbra have partnered to create a new multisource geospatial intelligence offering for both public and private sector use. To develop the integrated product, Umbra will provide dedicated capacity from satellites in its synthetic aperture radar imagery constellation to Maxar’s portfolio of earth intelligence products and services, the two companies announced in a joint release […] More

NASA has selected seven vendors that will compete for task orders under the expanded Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program procurement effort. The vendors were chosen based on the technical acceptability of their proposals and the reasonableness of their proposed contract prices relative to their commercial pricing, Kevin Murphy, the chief science data officer at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement issued Sept. 18.

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