Images take by NewSat-47 show Me li .01’s sola a ays deployed, a d the satellite is stable a d i good health
Me li .01 i o bit o Oct. 4, 2026, imaged by NewSat-47 fo HEO. White boxes ma k its bus a d deployed sola a ays. Image: HEO.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Satellogic I c. (NASDAQ: SATL), the i f ast uctu e compa y fo Pe siste t Global I tellige ce (PGI), a d HEO, a space i tellige ce compa y that uses satellites to photog aph a d a alyze othe objects i space, today eleased images of Me li .01 i o bit. These images we e take o Octobe 4th by NewSat-47, a Satellogic-built Ea th obse vatio satellite that HEO accesses as pa t of thei o -Ea th imagi g (NEI) capability. They show Me li .01’s sola a ays deployed a d su faci g, a d Satellogic’s telemet y co fi ms it. The image was take f om a dista ce of 53km with a esolutio of 8cm/px.
Me li .01 lau ched o Octobe 1, 2026, aboa d SpaceX’s T a spo te -18 missio , just 18 mo ths afte Satellogic fo mally kicked off the Me li p og am i Ma ch 2025. The compa y the accu ately p edicted seve mo ths ago that Me li ’s fi st deployme t would occu i Octobe 2026.
Satellogic co tacted Me li .01 o its fi st pass, about 20 mi utes afte it sepa ated f om the ocket, a d the updated its o boa d softwa e withi the fi st two days. The satellite is stable, espo di g to comma ds, i good health, a d its powe a d the mal systems a e pe fo mi g as expected. Me li .01 is still i its ea ly-o bit phase. Payload testi g a d commissio i g come ext, a d the full se vice is expected to be available i the seco d half of 2027.
“Fo defe se a d i tellige ce buye s, speed-to-o bit matte s.” said Vice Admi al (Ret.) T ey Whitwo th, Satellogic’s P eside t. “Satellogic delive ed Me li f om a bluep i t to spacebo e collectio i o ly 18 mo ths. I a wo ld of accele ati g bad acto s, ou speed a d p edictability allow age cies to pla with co fide ce fo i teg ati g Satellogic’s wo ld-class capabilities.”
Satellogic built Me li o its p ove NewSat platfo m athe tha sta ti g f om sc atch. Yea s of R&D, a expe ie ced ope atio s team, as well as i -house desig , ma ufactu i g, a d testi g e abled the team to adapt quickly with i -house pa ts a d e gi ee i g. Fo example, whe Me li eeded a la ge mag eto que , a pa t that helps stee the satellite, Satellogic built o e with its ow supply chai , pa ts, a d test setup.
“This is ou ow fleet wo ki g fo us,” said Go zalo Castillo, VP of P oduct & Custome Success at Satellogic. “A NewSat al eady i o bit helped HEO captu e Me li .01 withi days of its lau ch, givi g us a i depe de t look at a b a d- ew satellite that we sta ted desig i g o ly 18 mo ths ago. The image it took is p oof of the flexibility ve tical i teg atio ca p ovide ac oss multiple satellite co stellatio s.”
A HEO-ge e ated model of Me li .01, show f om the same a gle as HEO’s Oct. 4, 2026, image fo compa iso . Illust atio : HEO.
“Imagi g a b a d- ew satellite withi days of lau ch is exactly what o -Ea th imagi g is built fo . This capability gave the team a i depe de t view of Me li .01, co siste t with its sola a ays bei g deployed, to sit alo gside thei ow telemet y,” said D . Hi a ya Jayakody, Co-Fou de a d Chief Tech ology Office of HEO. “Getti g that ki d of i sight quickly, a d at scale, is how we make space mo e t a spa e t.”
Me li .01 is the fi st satellite i Satellogic’s Me li co stellatio , which is desig ed to be a global detectio laye fo mo ito i g whole egio s. Me li satellites will ca y 10-ba d payloads alig ed with Se ti el-2, with 1m-class image y a d a effective swath of 170 km, so the co stellatio ca emap the whole Ea th eve y day. Me li is built to p ocess image y with AI o boa d. Usi g li ks betwee satellites, it is desig ed to cue NewSat Ma k VI satellites to take 50 cm follow-up images without fi st goi g th ough a g ou d statio .
Fou ded i 2010, Satellogic (NASDAQ: SATL) builds the i f ast uctu e fo Pe siste t Global I tellige ce (PGI): co ti uous, p oactive awa e ess of the places, assets, a d activities that matte . The compa y combi es high-cade ce satellite collectio , best-i -class tech ology, AI-accele ated wo kflows, a d sove eig -t usted a chitectu e to help custome s move f om episodic image y to pe siste t mo ito i g p og ams.
Satellogic se ves allied defe se a d i tellige ce age cies, civil gove me ts, a d comme cial ma kets that eed eliable, scalable awa e ess of cha ge ac oss la ge po tfolios of sites. Custome s ca begi with discove y, expa d i to pe siste t mo ito i g, a d build towa d dedicated o sove eig -co t olled capacity as thei missio equi eme ts g ow. To lea mo e, please visit: https://www.satellogic.com.
HEO is buildi g the i tellige ce laye fo space. We image objects i o bit o dema d, tu i g existi g satellites i to i spectio platfo ms a d buildi g ou ow se so s whe e cove age gaps emai . Ou softwa e automates taski g, captu e a d a alysis, tu i g image y i to decisio – eady i tellige ce about satellites, deb is a d othe objects i o bit. HEO ope ates i te atio ally, with offices i Aust alia, F a ce, Japa , the U ited Ki gdom a d the U ited States. Ou goal is to make a y image i the Sola System available o Dema d. To lea mo e, please visit: https://www.heospace.com/
This p ess elease co tai s “fo wa d-looki g stateme ts” withi the mea i g of the U.S. fede al secu ities laws. The wo ds “a ticipate,” “believe,” “co ti ue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “i te ds,” “may,” “might,” “pla ,” “possible,” “pote tial,” “p edict,” “p oject,” “should,” “would” a d simila exp essio s may ide tify fo wa d-looki g stateme ts, but the abse ce of these wo ds does ot mea that a stateme t is ot fo wa d-looki g. These fo wa d-looki g stateme ts a e based o Satellogic’s cu e t expectatio s a d beliefs co ce i g, amo g othe thi gs, the capabilities, pe fo ma ce, a d pote tial applicatio s of Satellogic’s satellites, co stellatio s, satellite softwa e, a d pipeli e. Although we believe ou pla s, i te tio s a d expectatio s eflected i o suggested by these fo wa d-looki g stateme ts a e easo able, we ca ot give a y assu a ce that we eithe will achieve o ealize these pla s, i te tio s o expectatio s. Fo wa d-looki g stateme ts a e i he e tly subject to isks, u ce tai ties a d assumptio s, i cludi g isks elated to the pe fo ma ce of satellites a d softwa e o ce i o bit a d elia ce o thi d pa ties. Ma y actual eve ts a d ci cumsta ces a e beyo d the co t ol of the Compa y. Ma y facto s could cause actual futu e esults to diffe mate ially f om the fo wa d-looki g stateme ts i this p ess elease, i cludi g but ot limited to the isks a d u ce tai ties desc ibed i the “Risk Facto s” sectio of Satellogic’s A ual Repo t o Fo m 10-K a d othe docume ts filed o to be filed by Satellogic f om time to time with the Secu ities a d Excha ge Commissio . Fo wa d-looki g stateme ts speak o ly as of the date they a e made. Satellogic assumes o obligatio a d does ot i te d to update o evise fo wa d-looki g stateme ts, whethe as a esult of ew i fo matio , futu e eve ts, o othe wise.
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