Top 9 Military startups providing Satellite Surveillance and Geospatial intelligence

Updated: Feb 14, 2026
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These startups provide satellite surveillance for missile tracking, reconnaissance of enemy positions, detection of space-based threats, communication network monitoring and early warning systems.
1
ICEYE
Country: Finland | Funding: $518.6M
ICEYE allows to strengthen national defense with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites constellation that enable persistent monitoring to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth. It's used either for strategic site surveillance (tracking subtle changes at military bases, ports or launch sites) or for tactical access that gives defense and intelligence teams a new way to secure satellite capacity. The Gen4 satellite, developed by ICEYE, offers up to 16 cm of resolution and extended coverage with a repeat stage of up to 400 km, enabling more images to be acquired per orbit and longer cyclic stages, delivering the highest quality commercial search and rescue imagery in the world.
2
SpaceX
Country: USA | Funding: $11.8B
SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that operates a network of sattelites that can be used for military goals.
3
True Anomaly
Country: USA | Funding: $418M
True Anomaly develops space security technologies. Its AI platform aims to fill a critical gap in space situational awareness and defensive operations and consists of Mosaic software for geospatial imagery analysis and hardware, including a line of autonomous spacecraft capable of rendezvous and close-proximity operations. These spacecraft, dubbed Jackal, are equipped with a suite of sensors and cameras for tracking, observing, and collecting data on objects in space. Jackal offers high maneuverability, regardless of payload and low cost. Its high-performance propulsion system and secure software base provide unmatched autonomy and control - designed from the ground up for highly dynamic missions to gain space superiority in any competitive orbital environment.
4
Capella Space
Country: USA | Funding: $239M
Capella's easily accessible, high-resolution Earth images any time of day or night, in any weather helping U.S. defense, intelligence and civilian agencies solve some of the world’s toughest problems.
5
Slingshot Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $148.9M
Slingshot Aerospace develops an integrated AI platform for processing real-time and historical satellite data and delivers it to customers via modular APIs, MCP servers or SaaS interfaces. The platform's customers include both space companies requiring data for orbital risk and maneuver planning and ground-based companies for monitoring and planning ground operations (particularly military ops). Slingshot's proprietary sensor network is the world's only day/night optical observation network from low-Earth orbit to geostationary orbit, providing high-frequency observations and tracking in near-real time. The AI ​​model combines historical trends with real-time data to highlight anomalies, detect unexpected events, and identify emerging operational risks early to ensure rapid response and coordination.
6
Millennium Space Systems
Country: USA
Millennium Space Systems makes missile control, surveillance and reconnaissance small satellites for US Space Force.
7
DEWC Systems
Country: Australia
DEWC Services is Australia’s foremost C4ISREW specialist, providing the Australian Defence Organisation and industry partners with mission critical operational and technical experience in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare.
8
Danti
Country: USA | Funding: $7.8M
Search engine for all of Earth's data for Defense, Property & Insurtech, Infrastructure organizations
9
Disruptive Industries
Country: UK | Funding: $4.5M
Disruptive Industries (DI) is a technology company that builds threat detection systems.
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