EO Vista, now a division of General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), is a manufacturer specializing in advanced space-based and airborne electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) sensor systems. They deliver optical system payloads and instruments designed for high-resolution, multispectral, and hyperspectral imaging, as well as real-time 3D mapping applications. EO Vista provided the electro-optical infrared weather sensor payload to GA-EMS under contract with the U.S. Space Force for the EO/IR Weather System (EWS) program. Associated keywords include electro-optical sensors, weather imaging, remote sensing, and space-based payloads.
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General Atomics selected EO Vista in 2020 as its payload supplier for the U.S. Space Force Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System program.
EO Vista is providing an electro-optical infrared weather sensor payload that will fly on a General Atomics polar-orbiting satellite designed for weather imaging and cloud characterization.
EO Vista provides electro-optical and infrared space and airborne sensors to the Department of Defense, NASA, and intelligence customers.
General Atomics acquired EO Vista on 2023-09-15.
EO Vista is currently providing an advanced Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR) weather sensor payload to GA-EMS under GA-EMS’s contract with the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to deliver an EO/IR Weather System (EWS) satellite.
The EO Vista team has experience deploying high-performing national surveillance and sensing assets and developing visible and infrared sensor systems.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, EO Vista, the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, and Southwest Research Institute won $800,000 contracts to perform definition-phase studies of the coronagraph for the NOAA Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 mission.
The EWS program includes plans to gather imagery with a small satellite built by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems equipped with an imaging sensor developed by EO Vista.
An imaging sensor developed by EO Vista for U.S. Space Force weather satellites passed a key design review on 2022-01-31.
EO Vista is supplying sensors to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems for the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System program.