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  • Orbital Sidekick: Taking hyperspectral imaging from the garage to the Pentagon

    07/06/2023 1:17:44 PM PDT · by Fish Speaker · 1 replies
    Breaking Defense ^ | uly 05, 2023 at 10:29 AM | Theresa Hitchens
    WASHINGTON — The first space-based hyperspectral imaging sensor built by San Francisco startup Orbital Sidekick, founded in 2016, literally went from the garage of CEO and co-founder Dan Katz to the International Space Station as an experiment for Air Force Research Laboratory. “That was a kick ass little sensor we … integrated in my garage in San Francisco, and then handed it off to SpaceX, which launched it. And then NASA, the astronauts, took it from the Dragon capsule and installed it,” Katz told Breaking Defense in an interview. Hyperspectral cameras break down pixels into hundreds of frequency bands and...