Innovation
January 22, 2021
Alphabet, parent company of Google, is shutting down Loon, its subsidiary dedicated to providing broadband from balloons in the stratosphere. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth announced the news in a Medium blog post on Jan. 22. “Loon has been chasing the hardest problem of all in connectivity — the last billion users: The communities in areas…
December 2, 2020
Two space scientists — Naia Butler-Craig and Hannah Kerner — have made Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 list for science. Butler-Craig is a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the High-Power Electric Propulsion Lab. Kerner is part of the NASA Harvest program and an assistant research professor at University of…
October 22, 2020
Intel detailed on Tuesday its contribution to PhiSat-1, a new tiny small satellite that was launched into sun-synchronous orbit on September 2. PhiSat-1 has a new kind of hyperspectral-thermal camera on board, and also includes a Movidius Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit. That VPU is found in a number of consumer devices on Earth, but…
October 21, 2020
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has rolled out a new software platform, “OpenSpace,” composed of virtual products that enable satellite operators and Ground-as-a-Service (GSaaS) providers to design their own fully software-defined, dynamic ground systems, the company announced October 20. In order to include Software-Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities in its OpenSpace offering, Kratos said it virtualized…