Six EarthDaily Constellation satellites are in low Earth orbit and power-positive after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare delivered EDC-02 through EDC-07 on Sunday, 3 May, taking the Vancouver group’s on-orbit fleet from one platform to seven in a single launch with an eighth booked for later this northern summer. That is according to a 4 May statement from EarthDaily Analytics, which confirmed initial contact, stable performance and solar array deployment across the six.
Each satellite carries 16 imaging systems across the same 22 spectral bands as the original EDC-01 platform, with full on-orbit validation required before commercial operations open to customers. “The world doesn’t need more imagery. It needs trusted, consistent measurement,” CEO Don Osborne said in the announcement.
“With each satellite we bring online, we are closing the gap between data collection and decision-making,” Osborne added, with EarthDaily building toward AI-ready geospatial intelligence at scale across the wider Constellation. The company’s Earth observation lineage runs more than 35 years through its Geosys agriculture subsidiary in Minneapolis and Toulouse, with mission partners including SpaceX, Loft Orbital, Airbus and ABB.
Forestry is one of EarthDaily’s target sectors, alongside agriculture, mining, insurance and defence, with the company marketing a Forest Management Service that covers real-time change detection for deforestation, afforestation and reforestation, as well as REDD+ carbon-sink monitoring under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The EarthDaily Constellation is engineered for broad-area change detection rather than picture-quality imagery, with the wider revisit and 22 spectral bands designed to deliver cloud-free, calibrated daily mosaics across nearly 100 per cent of the world’s landmasses and maritime regions, the same data layer the European Commission’s Deforestation Regulation now requires of timber, cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber and soy supply chains.
With six satellites joining EDC-01 in orbit, an eighth scheduled for launch this northern summer, and EarthDaily entering commercial service inside the run-up to the EU Deforestation Regulation’s 30 December 2026 enforcement date, timber, pulp and paper importers are now seven months out from being required to defend their due diligence statements with daily, calibrated geospatial evidence.
