Imaging Space from Space - the bigger picture

HEO is a commercial company that performs Non-Earth Imaging (NEI), also referred to as Satellite-to-Satellite imaging or Space-to-Space imaging (S2S).

HEO primarily uses “fly-by imaging”, where a satellite images a target without any active adjustments to its orbit. To perform fly-by NEI successfully and within a sensible time-scale, multiple imaging platforms on different orbital planes are required with high resolution cameras and a suitable automated infrastructure. HEO achieves this by leveraging existing Earth Observation platforms, supplemented by their own purpose built NEI cameras in regions with low coverage, to perform high-cadence, resolved images of objects in space.

Through the use of HEO's Inspect platform, which monitors imaging opportunities and controls sensor tasking, this capability can provide several key applications to space operations. This includes defence applications (such as space object identification and capability assessment) as well as civil applications, such as mitigating the risk of space debris.