ST. LOUIS — There is no need to pause development of artificial intelligence (AI) despite recent advances that have alarmed experts and policy-makers about hidden dangers in the use of the technology because it currently is “not good enough” and continued maturing of the technology will ultimately improve capabilities, an official with the National Geospatial-Intelligence…

BlackSky Technology won a multimillion dollar renewal contract from an unnamed international ministry of defense customer for a subscription to tactical imagery and analytics services.  The imagery and analytics company supports a number of international ministries of defense with its satellite constellation and Spectra AI tasking and analytics platform. The company says it can deliver…

Xona Space Systems has successfully transmitted precision position, navigation, and timing (PNT) signals from space to ground on its demonstration LEO satellite, Huginn. The satellite was launched in May 2022, and Xona recently released updates from the demonstration.  Huginn is the first commercially funded Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) PNT mission. It has demonstrated the ability to…

Planet Labs is teaming up with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency to help in the battle against climate change. The organizations plan to build a regional satellite data-driven loss and damage atlas for climate change resilience. This collaboration was announced May. 25. The data facility plans to initially focus on compiling data for…