ESA picks Kepler-led group to develop LEO optical data relay network Original Publication Date: 2024-10-16 09:00 European Space Agency awards group 36 million euro ($39 million) contract. Group led by Kepler Communications, a Canadian small satellite operator. Three-year contract covers early ...

Yahsat and Bayanat forge AI-powered space technology champion Original Publication Date: 2024-10-01 22:10 Yahsat and Bayanat completed their merger Oct. 1, forming a company called Space42. Space42 has around 700 employees across more than 150 countries. Led by Karim Sabbagh, a former CEO of ...

Eartheye Space raises $1.5 million Original Publication Date: 2024-09-09 00:31 Singapore startup Eartheye Space raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Eartheye, founded in 2022, calls itself the “Uber Eats’ of Earth-observation data. With the recent investment, Eartheye will be expanding into ...

NASA adds three companies to launch services contract for smallsat missions Original Publication Date: 2024-08-23 03:06 NASA has added three companies to a contract for launching smallsat missions. Arrow Science and Technology, Impulse Space and Momentus Space selected for the contract. ...

ASCEND panel cites AI challenges and promise Original Publication Date: 2024-08-01 04:31 NASA uses AI to aggregate complex datasets from various Earth-observation sensors. Slingshot Aerospace is exploring ways to combine AI with existing physics-based modeling. Another potential AI application ...

Starliner return delayed to July Original Publication Date: 2024-06-22 02:04 NASA and Boeing push back the return of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. NASA did not disclose a new departure date for Starliner. Instead, NASA stated only that it is “evaluating future return opportunities” ...

AI startup Wallaroo tapped to help Space Force operationalize machine learning Original Publication Date: 2024-05-30 10:00 Wallaroo.AI will participate in the U.S. Space Force’s TAP (Tools, Applications & Processing) Lab accelerator program. The accelerator is focused on the use of commercial ...

Small satellites aim to fill big shoes for military weather data Original Publication Date: 2024-04-10 10:00 Orion Space Solutions is looking to demonstrate how shoebox-sized satellites can capture vital meteorological observations. The company is one of two selected by the U.S. Space Force for ...

Intelsat expands OneWeb LEO partnership Original Publication Date: 2024-03-20 02:46 Intelsat has bought at least five times more capacity from Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation. The companies announced March 19 that Intelsat has made a firm commitment to buy $250 million worth of LEO capacity ...

AI company developing software to detect hypersonic missiles from space Original Publication Date: 2024-02-18 11:00 Space Development Agency selected California-based EpiSci to develop tool. It will test its AI-powered software against data collected by low Earth orbit sensors. Hypersonic ...