Sidus teams with Australian space tech firm HEO for non-earth imaging payload

Sidus Space announced an agreement with HEO a subsidiary of HEO, an Australian space technology company specializing in non-Earth imaging and in-orbit satellite inspection services. Under this contract, Sidus Space will incorporate HEO’s Holmes Imager as a hosted payload on the second set of LizzieSat missions, scheduled for launch in Q2 2024, in conjunction with a monthly Data services contract. The Holmes Imager previously achieved success as a hosted payload on Turion’s Droid-1 in June 2023. This technology empowers HEO Inspect, an in-orbit satellite inspection software platform that facilitates NEI and provides invaluable intelligence on space objects. HEO Inspect rigorously processes and analyzes data captured by the Holmes Imager, enabling customers to explore and interpret space objects with remarkable clarity, precision, and speed. Since its unveiling in August 2022, HEO Inspect has been used by governments, defense agencies, and the commercial sector, serving as a vital tool to achieve high-revisit and timely collection for the rapid identification and characterization of space objects.