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Simera Sense

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Simera Sense, founded in 2018, is a leading provider of end-to-end optical payload solutions for the small satellite Earth observation industry. The company designs, develops, and builds high-resolution cameras and imagers for CubeSats, micro-satellites, and small satellites, offering solutions in the RGB, video, multispectral, and hyperspectral domains. Simera Sense has partnerships with organizations like Open Cosmos, AAC Clyde Space, OHB Systems, and the European Space Agency (ESA). Associated keywords include: earth observation, optical payloads, small satellites, imaging solutions, and remote sensing.

commercialFounded 2014
Cape Town, South Africa
www.simera-sense.com
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The Simera Sense xScape100 product range offers monochromatic to hyperspectral imagery with a 4.75-meter ground sampling distance.

CapabilityValue 4.0Mar 12, 2024Earth observation camera maker raises $15 million for European expansion

Exobotics and Simera Sense are collaborating to engineer and integrate a hyperspectral imager into a smallsat platform scheduled to launch into low Earth orbit later 2022.

PlanRelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Oct 5, 2022Hyperspectral imaging for smallsats is the goal of Exobotics + Simera Sense collaboration

Contec contracted in 2021 with U.S. smallsat mission integrator NanoAvionics for a 16-unit cubesat bus that will carry a Contec laser communications terminal and a 1.5-meter-resolution imager supplied by Simera Sense.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Jun 14, 2022South Korean ground station operator Contec raises Series C round for global expansion

The Simera hyperspectral camera on Lemu Nge is capable of measuring 32 spectral bands with wavelengths between 450 and 900 nanometers.

CapabilityValue 5.0Jan 11, 2022NanoAvionics To Build A Biodiversity Observation Smallsat For Lemu

The key instrument on Lemu Nge is a high-resolution hyperspectral camera supplied by Simera from South Africa.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 11, 2022NanoAvionics To Build A Biodiversity Observation Smallsat For Lemu

The key instrument on Lemu Nge is a high-resolution hyperspectral camera supplied by Simera from South Africa.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Dec 3, 2021Mission to save Earth’s climate – NanoAvionics signs contract with Lemu for the world’s first global biodiversity observation mission

The Simera hyperspectral camera on Lemu Nge measures 32 spectral bands with wavelengths between 450 and 900 nanometers.

CapabilityValue 5.0Dec 3, 2021Mission to save Earth’s climate – NanoAvionics signs contract with Lemu for the world’s first global biodiversity observation mission

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology selected Simera Sense to deliver a hyperspectral instrument with advanced onboard processing for a 6U CubeSat mission.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.3Aug 9, 2021Simera Sense to provide KAUST with a hyperspectral payload

The HyperScape50 instrument is a +30-band hyperspectral sensor developed by Simera Sense.

CapabilityValue 4.0Aug 9, 2021Simera Sense to provide KAUST with a hyperspectral payload

Unibap is a Swedish company that provides SpaceCloud Services used in the Simera Sense payload.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Aug 8, 2021KAUST Selects Simera Sense For Smallsat Hyperspectral Payload

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology selected Simera Sense to deliver a hyperspectral instrument for a 6U CubeSat mission scheduled to launch toward the end of 2022.

RelationshipsPlanCapabilityValue 4.0Aug 8, 2021KAUST Selects Simera Sense For Smallsat Hyperspectral Payload

Simera Sense manufactures optical payloads for the international nano-, micro-, and small-satellite Earth observation market.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.8Dec 8, 2020South African Space company Simera Sense to announce Europe expansion plans

Simera Sense will unveil plans to expand into Europe at the 9 December 2020 media event.

PlanGrowthValue 2.3Dec 8, 2020South African Space company Simera Sense to announce Europe expansion plans

Simera Sense will share information at the media event on planned short- and long-term optical payload development activities within Belgium, Europe, and South Africa.

PlanCapabilityValue 2.0Dec 8, 2020South African Space company Simera Sense to announce Europe expansion plans

ISISPACE is building and preparing the launch of NAPA-2, a second satellite that will carry a Simera Sense Multiscape Imager with 7 bands in the visual and near-infrared (VNIR) bands and a 5-meter ground sampling distance.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.6Aug 21, 2020SIMBA, DIDO-3, NAPA-1, three CubeSats built by ISISPACE to launch on Vega VV16

ISIS – Innovative Solutions in Space (ISISpace) selected Simera Sense to provide a multispectral optical payload for an upcoming CubeSat mission.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.0Nov 15, 2019ISISPACE selects Simera Sense to deliver optical payloads
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