Galaxia announced Sept. 3 that it has acquired the HyperScape100, a hyperspectral camera from the Belgian sensor maker Simera Sense that the companies describe as providing “32 user-selectable spectral bands in a compact form factor.”
The HyperScape100 draws its 32 bands from a library of 400, letting an operator retune the sensor for different jobs over a mission’s life. Simera Sense’s release describes hyperspectral sensing as reading light across hundreds of narrow wavelength bands rather than the handful of fixed channels a conventional camera uses, letting it identify specific materials and detect changes — in vegetation stress, pollution or mineral deposits, among other applications — that ordinary imaging can’t.
Simera Sense, a Belgian payload maker that supplies satellite operators worldwide, lists agriculture, environmental monitoring and maritime surveillance among the sensor’s uses. Galaxia designs satellite platforms and onboard computers under its MissionOne program, selling access to them as a service to customers who supply the applications. In describing its CSA-funded Möbius satellite constellation in 2023, Galaxia said the project would include a multispectral camera; the Simera Sense acquisition is its first publicly announced move into hyperspectral hardware.
“Adding hyperspectral imaging to our offering significantly expands the range of missions we can support,” Galaxia chief executive Arad Gharagozli said in the release.
The acquisition follows a couple of announcements from Galaxia this year, including federal money to expand its Halifax facility and Onyx Edge, an onboard computer meant to process satellite data in orbit rather than sending it to the ground to be processed. Galaxia has one satellite in orbit, Möbius-1, which was launched in June 2025.