
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has launched the final phase of a competition that seeking novel ways to collect data in support of a global model that is the standard for navigation and heading, selecting three winning teams to complete the design, build, and launch of their satellites. The teams—Britain’s Iota Technology, Spire Global [SPIR] and Canada’s SBQuantum, and Univ. of Colorado Boulder—were previously selected to move into Phase 4a of the MagQuest challenge, during which each team successfully tested…