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NASA Awards $476M to Eight Commercial Satellite Vendors
NASA has awarded a $476 million IDIQ contract to eight commercial satellite data providers under the second on-ramp round of its Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program. Rather than building its own Earth observation instruments, NASA is now buying imagery and thermal data from private operators like HydroSat, Ororatech, and ImageSat for wildfire detection, drought monitoring, and climate research.
