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According to a new report Global Commercial Satellite Imaging Market, published by KBV Research, The Global Commercial Satellite Imaging Market size is expected to reach $4.7 billion by 2025, rising at a market growth of 11.3% CAGR during the forecast period. Growing reliance on location-based

Days after SpaceX announced that he had signed on the world's first passenger for a trip around the moon, CEO Elon Musk, on Monday, announced that the passenger is Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. The lunar trip, which will take Maezawa to the moon and back, is scheduled for 2023.

On Monday, ISRO's PSLV-C42 blasted off from Sriharikota and injected two UK satellites into a very precise orbit 583km above Earth. After a lull of about five months, the launch marked the first of many ISRO has planned over the next few months - 18 more launches are expected by March 2019.

Following China, ISRO is now planning to set up a satellite ground control station in the bleak desolation of the North Pole. The station will primarily augment Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) operations that are crucial for civilian needs like disaster management, and for the needs of the armed forces.

After releasing satellite measurements explaining the Kerala floods, NASA has now released imagery that, in vivid detail, shows the devastation suffered by Kerala. The images, presented in a before and after format, show large swathes of land in Kerala still submerged under flood waters.