Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has delivered the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for integration ahead of SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission. PTD-3 is a 6-unit (6U) cubesat built and integrated by Terran Orbital to host and support launch and on-orbit operations of the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery […]
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‘Fleet Xpress Enhanced’ Ships From Inmarsat
Shipping companies can harness the full power of a digitally connected maritime ecosystem to support their digital transformation via Inmarsat directly or their global network of partners. The Fleet Xpress Enhanced solution provides access to a wider portfolio of Inmarsat’s connectivity products through the Fleet Edge platform and is future proof for seamless integration to […]
Thales Alenia Space and AIKO To Develop Advanced Software For Space Applications
“By using AI to enhance autonomous monitoring, detection, processing and data transfer capabilities on spacecraft, we are shaping new mission paradigms in space exploration.” Thales Alenia Space and the start-up AIKOS.r.l. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop advanced software for space systems. Their partnership will primarily study the use of artificial intelligence […]
U.S. Space Force Releases Decades Of Bolide Data To NASA For Planetary Defense Studies
An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of decades of data collected by U.S. government sensors on fireball events (large bright meteors also known as bolides*) for the benefit of the scientific and planetary defense communities. This action results from collaboration between NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) […]
Collaboration: Ball Aerospace + Microsoft Azure To Explore On-Orbit Computing
Ball Aerospace is collaborating with Microsoft Azure to enable faster, flexible and more dynamic on-orbit satellite data processing. Ball Aerospace’s space-based hardware and software capabilities are being combined with Microsoft Azure cloud in a series of on-orbit experiments to explore new capabilities of satellite edge processing in space. This latest collaboration between Ball Aerospace and […]