Commercial Earth Observation Microsatellites
Hera Systems
Hera Systems' commercial Earth observation microsatellites for high-revisit monitoring of maritime, infrastructure, and agricultural targets for government and commercial intelligence.
Technical specifications
- Product
- Commercial EO microsatellite constellation
- Focus
- High-revisit monitoring over specific areas (not single-pass super-high-res)
- Applications
- Maritime domain awareness, critical infrastructure, change detection
- Customers
- NRO CSPO, US DoD/IC, commercial analytics customers
- HQ
- San Jose, California, USA
About
Hera Systems is a US commercial Earth observation satellite company developing and operating a constellation of small EO satellites for government intelligence and commercial remote sensing applications. The company’s satellites provide high-revisit imagery for maritime domain awareness, critical infrastructure monitoring, and change detection missions.
Hera Systems focuses on the DoD and intelligence community market where high-revisit, persistent monitoring of specific geographic areas — ports, airfields, industrial facilities, military installations — is more valuable than the very-high-resolution snapshots from sensors like WorldView. Their satellites trade some resolution for greater quantity, enabling multiple passes per day over regions of interest.
The company has contracted with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) through the Commercial Systems Program Office (CSPO) and with other US government customers seeking commercial EO data. Hera Systems is based in San Jose, California. The commercial EO market they target (government intelligence analytics) is growing rapidly as US DoD increases use of commercial remote sensing data under programs like NGA’s Commercial GEOINT Strategy.
Documentation
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