SYDNEY, Australia — 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.
“Customers on a single platform in a single workflow can decide to look down or look up,” Shankar Sivaprakasam, Eartheye Space founder and CEO, told SpaceNews. “We want to make space situational awareness from space easy.”
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.
Eartheye Space, founded in 2022, raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding in 2024 to expand its online satellite-tasking platform. The company’s goal is to serve as the “Uber Eats” of Earth and space data.
Customers can task more than 500 satellites operated by commercial organizations and governments around the world.
“We don’t own any of these assets,” Sivaprakasam said. “We just have a very smart software platform.”
In addition to acquiring imagery, customers can order data extracted automatically from observations including oil spills, forests, floods or illegal transshipments.
“On the back of the data, our secret sauce is delivering that information within a few minutes,” Sivaprakasam said.