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VSAT Global & Next Generation Satellite Applications

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Satellite is on the brink of a new era. With many changes in the industry, new business models on the horizon and plenty of innovators are revolutionizing the satellite space, the 20th VSAT Global & Next Generation Satellite Applications event…

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Ursa Space Systems plans to use Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery to produce reports on oil storage in Caribbean, Middle East-North Africa and Europe. Credit: Ursa Space Systems

Ursa Space Systems raises $7M to turn satellite imagery into business intelligence

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With the new financing, Ursa plans to expand its customer base for products related to the global oil and gas industry, while continuing to develop the machine vision and machine learning algorithms it uses to create new data products.

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With Descartes Labs' GeoVisual Search, if a user clicks on ships in a Marina, GVS processes satellite and aerial imagery in the cloud to identify similar objects around the world. Users can also use geographic or temporal parameters to confine the GVS search. Credit: Descartes Labs

Descartes Labs raises $30 million for data refinery

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With the financing, Descartes Labs plans to enhance its “data refinery,” the cloud-based supercomputing platform it uses to draw useful information and insight from disparate datasets

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This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light. Curiosity was delivered in 2012 to Gale crater, a 155-kilometer-wide crater that contains a record of environmental changes in its sedimentary rock. Credit: NASA JPL-CALTECH

Beyond HAL: How artificial intelligence is changing space systems

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The $2.4 billion Mars 2020 mission is just one example of NASA’s increasing reliance on artificial intelligence, although the term itself makes some people uneasy.

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