Simera Sense says the Canary Islands Satellite Constellation, commissioned by Tenerife Council, is one of Europe’s most ambitious regional Earth observation programs. Credit: Simera Sense
TAMPA, Fla. — Belgium’s Simera Sense has won a contract to provide multispectral imagers for a small constellation being designed to track wildfires, volcanic activity and other regional priorities for the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain.
The company said July 7 it is building eight MultiScape100 sensors for Telespazio’s Spanish subsidiary, which recently won 21.3 million euros ($24.4 million) from the local island government to be prime contractor for the Earth observation constellation.
Each of the first two 80-kilogram satellites would house three imagers and the third would have the remaining two, with the trio slated to fly together to low Earth orbit in the second half of 2028.
The full constellation, scheduled to move into an operational and commercial data exploitation phase between 2029 and 2031, aims to provide near-daily coverage of the Spanish archipelago.
