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Ursa Space, NV5 Nab First Luno B Awards By NGA

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025

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Ursa Space, NV5 Nab First Luno B Awards By NGA

Satellite image of Izyum, Ukraine. Satellite image (c) Maxar Technologies

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) last Wednesday announced its first awards under its Luno B commercial analytics services contract with orders to Ursa Space Systems and NV5 Geospatial. Under a $21 million award dubbed TrueSight, Ursa will provide commercial analytics and automated models for detection, identification, analysis and alerts related to changes and movements of objects. NV5, under the $4.5 million Almanac order, and will provide “information on human geography conditions worldwide, including human geography baseline data,” NGA said. NGA…

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