Orbital Sidekick
Information ServicesCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
Orbital Sidekick (OSK) is an information services company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with 11-50 employees and a website at orbitalsidekick.com. It develops space-based hyperspectral infrastructure and spectral intelligence to provide real-time insights for commercial and defense clients on a global scale. OSK is building the GHOSt constellation to enable daily target monitoring, with applications including oil and gas pipeline monitoring, methane mapping, clean energy resource exploration, sustainable mining practices, precision agriculture, and wildfire risk mitigation. The company has pursued notable milestones, such as a 2018 AFWERX Phase 1 SBIR award, the 2023 launch of GHOSt satellites, selection by the National Reconnaissance Office for a focus area study under the SCE BAA, the 2024 Hyperspectral Earth Imaging System Trial (HEIST) deployment, and a 2024 acquisition by Stagwell, with a 2025 partnership with Suhora. These activities indicate OSK's ongoing engagement in commercial hyperspectral imaging and related government and defense opportunities.