Yahsat and Bayanat forge AI-powered space technology champion
Emirati satellite operator Yahsat and geospatial artificial intelligence provider Bayanat completed their merger Oct. 1, forming a company called Space42 valued at about $3 billion on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
Planet unveils Forest Carbon Monitoring dataset
SAN FRANCISCO – Earth observation company Planet unveiled a product Sept. 24 for monitoring global forests. Planet’s Forest Carbon Monitoring product offers quarterly estimates of the amount of carbon stored in branches, leaves and other plant tissue above ground at a resolution of three meters per pixel. In addition, it shows canopy height and canopy…
NASA SPAR Lab shares AI tool for spacecraft
SAN FRANCISCO – Artificial intelligence promises to make spacecraft increasingly resilient and capable of gathering data without waiting for instructions from ground controllers. “We’ve been limited with the way we’ve done work so far,” Evana Gizzi, AI research lead at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told SpaceNews. “And there are so many things we want…
Evolving artificial intelligence capabilities in space
Executives discussing emerging space-based computing capabilities Sept. 20 called for stronger collaboration between policymakers and technology leaders to accelerate artificial intelligence’s societal benefits.
LEO takes center stage for communications at sea
Ship owners are increasingly relegating geostationary satellites to the backseat and turning to low Earth orbit networks for primary communications at sea, according to a panel of multi-orbit maritime service providers.
Anduril targets space domain with AI and autonomous systems
The company plans to “design, build, and launch our own fully integrated systems by the end of 2025”
NGA taps 10 firms for $290 million satellite data analytics contract
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency selected Earth observation satellite imagery providers and data analytics specialists to compete for orders under the Luno A program
U.S. defense program seeks next-generation space monitoring tools
The Space Security and Defense Program is doing market research on advanced space domain awareness technologies available in the 2030-2040 timeframe
The invisible battle for space dominance
As geopolitical tensions extend beyond Earth’s atmosphere, the U.S. Space Force is sharpening its focus on dominating the electromagnetic spectrum. Space electronic warfare — the art and science of protecting and denying satellite signals — has become a key part of how modern militaries fight and defend. Examples include jamming satellite communications, disrupting Global Positioning…
U.S. Space Force seeks industry input on automating hybrid satellite networks
The Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office issued a request for information on automated satcom network orchestration
Eartheye Space raises $1.5 million
SAN FRANCISCO – Singapore startup Eartheye Space raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its online satellite-tasking platform. Eartheye Space, founded in 2022, calls itself the “Uber Eats” of Earth-observation data. Uber Eats can deliver food from multiple restaurants and Eartheye Space “can combine any of the 475-plus satellites across all the sensor modalities,”…
Collimate offers tool to predict downlink success
SAN FRANCISCO – Collimate Space, a new Silicon Valley startup, aims to tackle a specific problem for satellite operators. Collimate offers a tool for predicting the success of satellite downlinks, after considering space weather, terrestrial weather and the location and profile of ground-based antennas. That’s valuable because satellite operators can say to a customer, ‘I…
NGA to launch $700 million program to help AI make sense of satellite images
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to solicit bids for “data labeling” services
U.S. intelligence agency to evaluate trustworthiness of AI models
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is creating a standardized framework for evaluating the accuracy of computer vision models used to analyze satellite imagery and other geospatial data
Navigating by sight
SAN FRANCISCO – A NASA formation-flying experiment shows the promise of autonomous navigation for satellite swarms. The four cubesats in the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment, or StarFOX, calculate their orbits by combining visual images from star trackers with robotics algorithms. “Such a visual-navigation system on a swarm of satellite can be used to navigate around…
SNC scaling up its fleet of radio-frequency monitoring satellites
The company is transitioning from RF sensing cubesats to larger ESPA-class satellites
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