xplore.com
Xplore.com is the official website of Xplore Inc., a U.S. space technology company that sells satellite data, orbital computing, and spacecraft operations through its “Space as a Service” model.
What does Xplore.com actually offer?
Xplore divides its core business into Data as a Service, Compute as a Service, and Operations as a Service for commercial, government, and nonprofit customers.
Its approach is important because customers can buy specific space capabilities without developing every satellite, sensor, ground system, and operations tool themselves.
The company says its planned low Earth orbit constellation will combine remote-sensing instruments with onboard computing to collect information and process some of it before transmission to Earth.
How does Xplore collect useful data from space?
Xplore's Data as a Service business uses satellite sensors designed for hyperspectral, multispectral, infrared, optical, radio-frequency, ultraviolet, and other observations.
Hyperspectral imaging is especially useful because it records many narrow wavelength bands and can reveal material properties that ordinary photographs cannot show.
Xplore lists potential markets including agriculture, forestry, insurance, energy, maritime operations, environmental monitoring, transportation, infrastructure, defense, and intelligence.
This makes the company less like a traditional satellite manufacturer and more like a provider of information produced by space infrastructure.
What has Xplore already launched?
Xplore announced that its first hyperspectral satellite, XCUBE-1, launched on December 21, 2024, aboard SpaceX's Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission and successfully established communications after deployment.
The company's January 2025 mission announcement said XCUBE-1 was designed to provide hyperspectral Earth imagery at about 4.2-meter spatial resolution.
By June 2025, Xplore reported that early operational imagery was producing approximately 5-meter spatial resolution across a broad range of spectral bands.
Its first public hyperspectral imagery demonstrated applications such as environmental analysis, vessel identification, Earth observation, and monitoring objects in orbit.
Why is orbital computing part of the business?
Xplore's Compute as a Service system is designed to let customers run software and algorithms on computers aboard its satellites.
The platform uses a Linux and ARM-based computing environment where customer software can perform tasks such as object identification, cloud detection, data compression, anomaly detection, and artificial intelligence processing.
Processing information in orbit can reduce the amount of raw data that must be downloaded, which can lower transmission needs and deliver useful results faster.
This edge-computing strategy could become increasingly valuable as Earth-observation satellites generate larger datasets that are expensive and slow to send completely to the ground.
What is Major Tom?
Major Tom is Xplore's cloud-based satellite operations platform for tracking spacecraft, sending commands, scheduling ground-station contacts, transferring files, and monitoring telemetry.
The service supports multiple satellites and missions from one dashboard while offering automation, APIs, role-based access controls, and remote operations.
Xplore also uses Major Tom to operate its own spacecraft, giving the software a direct role inside the company's wider satellite business.
This combination of proprietary satellites, data products, onboard computing, and operations software gives Xplore several ways to earn revenue from the same space infrastructure.
Does Xplore work with the U.S. government?
Xplore received a $2 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense's National Security Innovation Capital program in 2021 to accelerate development of its XCRAFT spacecraft platform.
In 2023, the National Reconnaissance Office selected Xplore under a commercial hyperspectral capabilities contract focused on evaluating data for U.S. intelligence applications.
These agreements show that Xplore is pursuing a dual-use business in which similar satellite technologies can support both civilian commercial applications and government missions.
Who runs Xplore?
Xplore's leadership page lists Jeff Rich as chief executive officer, Lisa Rich as chief operating officer, Dave Claussen as chief technology officer, David Floyd as engineering director, and Henry Lin as chief financial officer.
The company describes itself as an early-stage, venture-backed space business based in Bellevue, Washington.
Its focus remains narrower than giant aerospace companies because Xplore is concentrating on specialized remote sensing, orbital computing, and satellite operations rather than launch vehicles or human spaceflight.
Is Xplore.com the same company as Xplore.ca?
No, Xplore.com represents the U.S. space technology company, while Xplore.ca belongs to a separate Canadian telecommunications company that provides fibre, wireless, and satellite internet services to rural communities.
The similar names can easily cause confusion, so checking the domain is important when researching either business.
What makes Xplore.com worth watching?
Xplore.com shows a company trying to combine satellite sensing, computing, and operations into one service stack rather than selling only spacecraft hardware.
XCUBE-1 gives that strategy an operational foundation because Xplore can now demonstrate real hyperspectral data instead of relying only on plans for future satellites.
The larger test will be whether Xplore can expand from its first spacecraft into a reliable constellation while turning technically advanced imagery and orbital computing into services that customers repeatedly buy.