Over the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ran AWS compute and machine learning software on a satellite in orbit in a first-of-its kind experiment. AWS collaborated with D-Orbit and Unibap, and ran the experiment on D-Orbit’s ION satellite. AWS detailed the experiment in a blog post published Tuesday. The AWS software prototype was…

Maxar Technologies on Thursday said it acquired Wovenware, which specializes in artificial intelligence and software developing, and will make the Puerto Rico-based company one of its software development and AI/machine learning (ML) centers of excellence. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wovenware has about 150 employees. The two companies have worked together for the past…

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded BlackSky a second award to support a research program to automate analysis of satellite imagery. On Thursday, BlackSky announced the $4.4 million award to support the second phase of the multi-year Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) program. This follows after BlackSky received a contract in…

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded BlackSky Technologies a contract worth up to $241 million over five years to create and optimize data sets for use in DoD AI models and applications. The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) issued the basic order agreement. BlackSky announced the award on Tuesday.  Details of the contract were…