Commercial Competition In GEOINT Accelerating, And Not Just With U.S. Companies, NGA Official Says

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ST LOUIS --Competition in commercial remote sensing reached an inflection point in 2016 in the number of satellites on orbit, a number that doubled in 2017, and another milestone will soon be reached as more companies have low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and constellations being manufactured so that in the next four to five years, 400 to 500 remote sensing satellites will be launched into orbit annually, demonstrating the speed at which the commercial geospatial intelligence market is growing, an official with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) said on Thursday.