Building a new way to see Earth.
A photograph tells us what a landscape looks like. Pixxel is building satellites to help ask what it is made of—and what might be changing.
Space companies worth knowing.
Space used to belong almost entirely to governments. The companies here are working on its practical edges: how to reach orbit more simply, and what an instrument in orbit can usefully tell people on the ground.
We are less interested in spectacle than in the hard parts—manufacturing, sensing, data and the long distance between a launch and a dependable service.
