Tag: Ground
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Open Cosmos Partners with Ubotica Technologies to Bring AI into Orbit
Open Cosmos, the company building satellites to understand and connect the world, has partnered with Ubotica Technologies to bring advanced artificial intelligence into orbit through collaboration on the Flight Demonstration of Federated Autonomous Measurement (FAME) – a project led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The collaboration will see two of Open Cosmos’ operational satellites, equipped…
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Vantor and Ecopia AI Deliver 300 Million Building Vectors in India
Consumer-grade maps only work if their vector data, the 2D and 3D building footprints, road centerlines and land cover features that consumers interact with reflects the world as it exists. But producing accurate, interoperable building footprints at a national scale has traditionally required a tradeoff between quality, cost and speed. Vantor and Ecopia AI recently…
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Loft Orbital and EarthDaily Analytics Sets Record Launch with Six Satellites
Loft Orbital, a global space infrastructure company, and EarthDaily Analytics, a premier provider of end-to-end Earth observation solutions, announced a milestone mission planned for this quarter that will see six EarthDaily satellites deployed on a single launch. This mission marks a major step in the full deployment of EarthDaily’s constellation and will double the size…
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Little Place Labs Advances Space Intelligence with Orbitfy for Real-Time Satellite Data Processing
Little Place Labs is expanding the space technology portfolio with the Orbitfy Suite, an integrated, end-to-end solution designed to transform how satellite data is processed, transmitted and utilized. Built at the intersection of space systems, artificial intelligence and edge computing, the Orbitfy platform enables faster, more efficient delivery of actionable insights from Earth Observation (EO)…
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Astrobotic Sets Milestone for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Hot Fire
Astrobotic announced the successful hot fire test of its Chakram rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. Two Chakram engine prototypes completed eight successful hot-fire tests, accumulating more than 470 seconds of total run time without any discernible damage to the engine hardware. The campaign included a…
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Kongsberg Satellite Services and Kongsberg NanoAvionics Launch End-to-End Satellite Solution
Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) and Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) have announced their strategic partnership to simplify mission deployment and lower the operational and financial burden for satellite owners. By combining NanoAvionics’ high-performance small satellite platforms with KSAT’s global ground infrastructure and operational expertise, the companies will deliver integrated, end-to-end satellite mission services. It will give satellite…
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CesiumAstro Selected to Support GMD Interceptor Communications for Missile Defense Agency
CesiumAstro, a leader in advanced space communications, has been awarded a contract to deliver a new active phased array variant as part of an expansion to its Skylark product line. This large-aperture array, built on CesiumAstro’s scalable active phased array architecture, will support modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System (GWS), a critical…
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Benchmark Space Systems Selected by DARPA to Conduct LASSO Feasibility Study
Benchmark Space Systems has been selected to conduct a Phase 1A/1B feasibility and design study under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO) program. The study will evaluate the technologies and spacecraft architectures required to operate safely and persistently in low lunar orbit (LLO), one of the most…
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Redwire Launches Additional Colloids Experiments to the International Space Station
Redwire launched additional colloids experiments to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard a recent commercial resupply mission to the ISS. These modules support Redwire’s Colloidal Solids Instrument (COLIS), a powerful research platform advancing our understanding of diseases, drug development, advanced materials, industrial processes, and biomedical applications. When sunscreen thickens over time or mayonnaise slowly separates…
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Impulse Space Unveils Rigel Engine to Advance Next Generation In-Space Mobility
Impulse Space has introduced Rigel, a new 200 lbf-class rocket engine designed to expand in-space mobility capabilities for missions ranging from precision maneuvering to high-energy transport. As the space economy scales, exploration is expanding, government activity is increasing and missions are pushing further into deep space. In-space operations require increasingly dynamic mobility. The Rigel engine…