Viasat exploring partnerships for GEO and LEO direct-to-smartphone services
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 21:45
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Viasat is exploring hybrid narrowband direct-to-smartphone services using satellites in geostationary and non-geostationary orbits, CEO Mark Dankberg said Feb.
DoD procurement of space tech is evolving, but pace of change is slow
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 21:16 Write a comment
Nicholas Estep, program manager at the Defense Innovation Unit, said there is “natural latency” in the procurement system that is going to slow down adoption of commercial technologies.
Shotwell says SpaceX ready for Starship static-fire test
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 19:52 Write a comment
SpaceX will attempt a static-fire test of all 33 engines in its Starship booster as soon as Feb. 9, a test that could allow the company to attempt an orbital launch a month later.
Maxar receives $192 million contract to supply imagery to U.S. allies
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Maxar a five-year $192 million contract to provide satellite imagery to U.S.
Skeptical investors are placing new demands on space startups
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 18:30 Write a comment
Space startups will need to step up their fundraising efforts if they want to raise money this year from increasingly meticulous investors, according to a panel of early-stage space investment firms.
Don’t forget the ground segment
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 18:24 Write a comment
Space startups often make the mistake of waiting too long to establish the ground infrastructure to support their satellites.
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Small launch industry warns of “bloodletting”
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 15:37 Write a comment
While demand for launches of smallsats is higher than ever, industry officials warned that price pressures and lack of access to capital could cause many companies to go out of business in the near future.
Firefly’s first U.S. Space Force launch targeted for May
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The chief executive of Firefly Aerospace Bill Weber said Feb.
ESA’s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar
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During a break from looking at planets around other stars, ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to the discovery of a dense ring of material around it.
The dwarf planet is known as Quaoar. The presence of a ring at a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar, opens up a mystery for astronomers to solve: why has this material not coalesced into a small moon?
Fundamentals of Space Missions
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The newly released book "Fundamentals of Space Missions: Problems with Solutions" (ISBN 9798985668742) provides a comprehensive guide for students, instructors, and professionals alike in the field of space systems and missions.
Written by Professor Mike Gruntman, a renowned astronautics expert who has taught the subject at the University of Southern California for the past 25 years to ove SwRI models explain canyons on Pluto moon
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 09:37 Write a comment
In 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically active objects instead of the inert icy orbs previously envisioned. An SwRI scientist has revisited the data to explore the source of cryovolcanic flows and an obvious belt of fractures on Pluto's large moon Charon. These new mod Researchers focus AI on finding exoplanets
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New research from the University of Georgia reveals that artificial intelligence can be used to find planets outside of our solar system. The recent study demonstrated that machine learning can be used to find exoplanets, information that could reshape how scientists detect and identify new planets very far from Earth.
"One of the novel things about this is analyzing environments where pla GEODNET offers centimeter precision and GNSS corrections for OEMS and Ag Sector
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At the FIRA international agricultural robotics forum, GEODNET announces initial availability of a Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), Centimeter Precision, GNSS Corrections Service for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Systems Integrators.
GEODNET is compatible with thousands of fielded GNSS receivers from all major brands, on-vehicle automated steering and spraying kits, as well as the AI supercharges battle of web search titans
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A new generation of AI chatbots has unleashed a titanic battle between Microsoft and Google for the eyeballs of billions of web users, and the dollars they bring.
Microsoft has gone all-in with a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the firm behind the world's most buzzy bot ChatGPT, hoping to revolutionise its unloved Bing search engine.
Google has owned the search market for two d Momentus Vigoride-5 Status Update #2
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Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company reports that its Vigoride-5 Orbital Service Vehicle launched on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission on January 3 continues to be in good health and that the team is continuing to fully commission the vehicle in preparation for further on-orbit operations.
Recent activities have focused on tuning the performance of the attitude dete