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Artificial intelligence is going full circle — from fiction to science, and back again
A teenager is left in charge of a Mars base in one of “The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories.” (Illustration by Maurizio Manzieri / Infinivox) Artificial intelligence has had an effect on nearly every facet of modern life — ranging from diagnosing diseases, to applying for a job, to deciding which movie to watch. Now it’s reaching…
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All.Space Founder John Finney Steps Down as CEO
John Finney, who founded satellite terminal company All.Space, is stepping down from his role as CEO. All.Space announced Wednesday that Paul McCarter will succeed Finney as CEO, effective immediately. Finney was previously the chief commercial officer of O3b Networks. He founded the company in 2013 as Isotropic Systems to design a multi-orbit antenna to match…
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Relativity Space has gone from printing money and rockets to doing what, exactly?
A splashy California-based launch company named Relativity Space shared a photo of sleek-looking rocket hardware on its social media channels last week. The image featured an impressively large payload fairing, which protects satellites on the ride into space. “Time to take a look at Terran R’s payload envelope,” the company said, calling attention to three…
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Rocket Lab Schedules Second Launch for Kinéis IoT Constellation Deployment
Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it has set the launch window for its 53rd Electron Launch. The mission will be the second of five dedicated launches for the French company Kinéis, designed to provide global Internet of Things (IoT) accessibility worldwide. The ‘Kinéis Killed the RadIOT…
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Nuview Selects Space Flight Laboratory to Develop Pathfinder Bus
Nuview has selected Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) to develop the pathfinder satellite bus for its LiDAR demonstration satellite. Nuview, which emerged from stealth mode in 2023, plans to build the first commercial LiDAR satellite constellation to provide continually updatedc 3D elevation data of the Earth’s land surface. The company says that space-based LiDAR can capture…
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Ovzon Secures Second U.S. Department of Defense Order for T7 Satellite Terminal
Ovzon has received a second order from the United States Department of Defense for the company’s most recent mobile satellite terminal, the Ovzon T7. The order value amounts to 0.4 MUSD. In February of this year, the United States Department of Defense (U.S. DOD) became the first customer to place an order for Ovzon T7,…
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Inmarsat’s NexusWave Trialed by Hapag-Lloyd for Enhanced Maritime Connectivity
Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, has announced that global container liner shipping group Hapag-Lloyd is among the first to trial NexusWave, the fully managed service which delivers an unparalleled global service orchestrated by bringing together a multi-orbit, multi-band set of connectivity networks as a single network solution. The trials align with the Hamburg-headquartered shipping group’s…
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Clay Mowry to Lead AIAA as CEO
Clay Mowry will lead the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as the organization’s next CEO, AIAA announced Tuesday. Mowry succeeds Dan Dumbacher, who is retiring and will leave AIAA at the end of September. Mowry will start in his role on Oct. 1. AIAA is the largest aerospace technical society with nearly 30,000…
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Arianespace Ready to Lift-off Vega Rocket for Sentinel-2C’s Multispectral Imaging Mission
Arianespace is set to launch Sentinel-2C Copernicus satellite for the European Commission within the scope of a contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA). The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is ready for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch will be on ESA WebTV…