The brief

Analyst view

• Runs six Firefly hyperspectral satellites (2025), each seeing 135+ colour bands at about 5 m.
• Raised a $100M Series C in Sept 2026 (Temasek, Seraphim), $195M in total since 2019.
• Next: Honeybee satellites adding shortwave infrared from 2027; leads India's private EO constellation consortium.

Technical approach

As reported

Hyperspectral

Hundreds of colours, not three

Instead of red, green and blue, each pixel is split into 135+ narrow bands, enough to tell materials apart by their spectral fingerprint.

Small sats

Constellation of small satellites

Several small satellites in sun-synchronous orbit share the work, so the same place can be revisited every few days.

Aurora

Software that reads the spectra

Its Aurora platform turns raw spectra into maps and alerts, using AI to help government users find what matters.