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7 May 2026 · Marta Silva

Six months of the unified tasking fabric

GRIDSCAN customers were migrated onto the shared tasking fabric in November. What broke, what did not.

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19 Mar 2026 · Daan Kruithof

Nineteen years and one roadmap

ORBIS, GRIDSCAN, TIDEWATCH and AGRISENSE are converging onto a single tasking and delivery fabric. Why now.

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13 Nov 2025 · Jasper Vermeulen

The economics of a three-year FIELDKIT deployment

The purchase price of an in-situ node is the smallest part of what it costs. Here is the rest of it.

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26 Sep 2024 · Daan Kruithof

ORBIS 4 and inference at the edge

Running models on the payload rather than after downlink changes what is possible, and what is sensible.

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14 Sep 2023 · Maarten de Groot

ATLAS is public, and the SDKs are open source

Every ORBIS capability is now available programmatically, with a published OpenAPI specification and a free sandbox.

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20 Oct 2022 · Philippe Garnier

Why we run our own ground station

Commercial downlink capacity exists and is competent. We are building our own anyway, and the reason is latency, not cost.

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24 Feb 2022 · Daan Kruithof

FIELDKIT 2: what we changed after seven years in the field

The second generation is mostly a list of things that broke, and what we did about each one.

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12 Feb 2020 · Merijn Vroegh

Ten years of ORBIS

ORBIS 1.0 shipped in May 2010. A decade later, some of that original code is still in production — and that is not an accident.

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