Kuva Space

aid: kuva-space
name: Kuva Space
description: Kuva Space is a Finnish space-data company headquartered in Espoo that operates a fleet of hyperspectral Earth
  observation microsatellites and delivers AI-driven planetary intelligence through its Kuva Sense platform. Founded in 2016
  (originally as Reaktor Space Lab) by Tuomas Tikka and Janne Kuhno in collaboration with Reaktor, the company designs, builds,
  and operates its own 6U CubeSat-class spacecraft carrying a patented in-orbit tunable Fabry-Perot 2D snapshot hyperspectral
  imager. Its operational Hyperfield-1A (launched August 2024 on SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg) and Hyperfield-1B (launched
  June 2025) cover the 475–950 nm VNIR range with up to 160 tunable spectral bands at 25 m spatial resolution and a 50 km
  swath from a 500 km polar sun-synchronous orbit. The larger 70 kg Hyperfield-2 microsatellite, scheduled for H2 2026, expands
  coverage to 450–1,650 nm at 15 m resolution with an additional 3.6 m GSD RGB camera. By 2030 Kuva Space plans to grow the
  constellation to roughly 100 satellites to enable sub-daily revisit anywhere on Earth. Onboard AI handles cloud filtering,
  spectral band alignment, and compression so that downlinked products feed directly into Kuva Sense, where automated analytics
  generate insights-as-a-service for agriculture (crop identification, yield forecasting, harvest timing), aquaculture (water
  quality, algal bloom detection, biomass), environment and carbon (sequestration monitoring, deforestation, pollution tracking),
  and safety and security (vessel detection and tracking, illegal activity warning, rapid change detection). Kuva Space is
  part of the European Space Agency InCubed-co-funded HYPERFIELD program, was awarded a €1.8M ESA Civil Security from Space
  contract within the SMART-CONNECT consortium to demonstrate rapid hyperspectral insights for crisis response, and in 2026
  signed a Letter of Intent with SSC Space to strengthen Nordic space capabilities. The commercial model is subscription-based
  insights-as-a-service rather than pay-per-pixel imagery sales, with current access offered through the Kuva Sense Early
  Adopter Program; the company markets "robust APIs and customizable data formats" for system integration but does not currently
  publish open public API reference documentation, an OpenAPI specification, or a self-service developer portal. The only
  public engineering surface is the open-source kuva-data-processing Python toolkit (kuva-metadata, kuva-reader, kuva-geometry)
  on GitHub and PyPI, which reads Kuva GeoTIFF-based L0/L1AB/L1C/L2A data products and their metadata sidecars.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kuva-space.png
tags:
- Earth Observation
- Hyperspectral Imaging
- Satellite Imagery
- Remote Sensing
- Microsatellites
- CubeSat
- Space
- Geospatial
- Planetary Intelligence
- Agriculture
- Aquaculture
- Environment
- Carbon Monitoring
- Deforestation
- Maritime Domain Awareness
- Safety And Security
- Crisis Response
- Climate
- AI
- Insights As A Service
- Finland
- Nordic Space
- ESA InCubed
- Hyperfield
- Kuva Sense
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created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kuva-space-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kuvaspace.com
- type: HomeEnglish
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en
- type: Company
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/company
- type: Technology
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/technology
- type: Satellites
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/technology/satellites
- type: HyperspectralImaging
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/technology/hyperspectral-imaging
- type: KuvaSense
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/kuva-sense
- type: Solutions
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/solutions
- type: Agriculture
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/solutions/agriculture
- type: Aquaculture
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/solutions/aquaculture
- type: EnvironmentAndCarbon
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/solutions/environment-and-carbon
- type: SafetyAndSecurity
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/solutions/safety-and-security
- type: EarlyAdopterProgram
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/early-adopter-program
- type: Resources
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/resources
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/resources
- type: Careers
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/careers
- type: Contact
  url: https://kuvaspace.com/en/contact
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/KuvaSpace
- type: GitHubDataProcessing
  url: https://github.com/KuvaSpace/kuva-data-processing
- type: PyPIReader
  url: https://pypi.org/project/kuva-reader/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kuva-space
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@kuvaspace
- type: ESAInCubedHyperfield
  url: https://incubed.esa.int/portfolio/hyperfield/
- type: AaltoUniversityProfile
  url: https://www.aalto.fi/en/innovation-portfolio/kuva-space
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com