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BlackSky Heralds Win of DoD Contract for Moving Target Analysis
BlackSky Technology said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery. “We are taking BlackSky’s industry-leading ability to monitor moving objects from space another step forward by…
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Thaicom Orders THAICOM-9 Satellite from Astranis
Thaicom taps Astranis to build THAICOM-9, an Astranis MicroGEO satellite. Thaicom, an Asian satellite and space tech company, selected Astranis to build a MicroGEO satellite to provide Ka-band services over Asia at 119.5 degrees East. The deal includes possible expansion of coverage to future satellites. The satellite will be launched in 2025. THAICOM-9 will be…
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SpaceX just showed us what every day could be like in spaceflight
Between Sunday night and Monday night, SpaceX teams in Texas, Florida, and California supervised three Falcon 9 rocket launches and completed a full dress rehearsal ahead of the next flight of the company’s giant Starship launch vehicle. This was a remarkable sequence of events, even for SpaceX, which has launched a mission at an average…
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ICEYE Launches Three New SAR Satellites Strengthening its Earth Observation Capabilities
ICEYE, one of the global leaders in persistent monitoring and natural catastrophe solutions, successfully launched three additional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites on March 4, 2024, including a 1200 MHz radar bandwidth in-orbit technology demonstrator that will enable 25 cm imaging. The satellites were integrated via launch integrator Exolaunch and successfully lifted off aboard SpaceX’s…
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MethaneSAT Enters Orbit Following SpaceX’s Launch of Groundbreaking Climate Mission
Just after 4:00 pm Pacific Time on March 3, 2024, MethaneSAT effectively detached from SpaceX Transporter-10 which carried the emissions monitor into space. The groundbreaking satellite is designed to help protect the Earth’s climate by accelerating reductions of a powerful greenhouse pollutant, focusing first on oil and gas operations, a major source of methane. Developed by a…
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Daily Telescope: A new Webb image reveals a cosmos full of galaxies
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a…
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Nuclear Weapons in Space: Behind the Headlines With Brian Weeden
A few weeks ago, space security issues took center-stage in the news after reports of a nuclear satellite weapon. The White House confirmed that Russia is developing an anti-satellite (ASAT) capability, but said it’s not an active capability, and did not speak to any nuclear capabilities. This raised a lot of questions — What would…
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Boeing Receives US Space Force Contract for WGS-12 Satellite
U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command awarded Boeing a contract worth $439.6 million to build the 12th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite. The U.S. Department of Defense announced the contract on March 1. The satellite is expected to be delivered by Jan. 31, 2029. Boeing is the prime contractor for the WGS satellites, which…
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Boeing Receives US Space Force Contract for WGS-12 Satellite
U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command awarded Boeing a contract worth $439.6 million to build the 12th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite. The U.S. Department of Defense announced the contract on March 1. The satellite is expected to be delivered by Jan. 31, 2029. Boeing is the prime contractor for the WGS satellites, which…
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BrainChip Enhances Space Heritage with Launch of Akida AI Tech into Low Earth Orbit
BrainChip Holdings, the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI, saw its Akida AI technology launched into low earth orbit aboard the Optimus-1 spacecraft built by the Space Machines Company. The successful launch is another milestone for BrainChip’s innovative AI acceleration solution in the burgeoning SpaceTech industry, which needs advanced…