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NASA has selected seven vendors that will compete for task orders under the expanded Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program procurement effort. The vendors were chosen based on the technical acceptability of their proposals and the reasonableness of their proposed contract prices relative to their commercial pricing, Kevin Murphy, the chief science data officer at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement issued Sept. 18.

NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the agency’s Earth science research.

NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data for the agency’s Earth science research as part of the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition

Umbra, Capella Space and GHGSat are among the seven companies that will provide NASA with commercial satellite imagery.

Iceye US Inc., which makes satellites that can see through bad weather, night skies and daylight, will be supplying NASA with imagery of the Earth under an agreement signed earlier this year.

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NASA placed a $1.7 million call order with BlackSky to evaluate the company’s imaging data services for Earth science research. The call order was issued