Focus: AI and Machine Learning

Slingshot Aerospace released Portal, an artificial intelligence-based platform for satellite data monitoring and analysis this week. The software combines Slingshot’s data flows with external sources into its analytics engine, which […]

Planet recently performed AI-driven object detection directly onboard a Pelican-4 satellite, using the satellite’s onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin module.  Planet shared details on Tuesday of the recent tech milestone. On […]

Planet Labs’ German subsidiary is partnering with a new arm of insurance firm AXA to integrate its Earth Observation data into an AI-powered risk management system to monitor and predict […]

Maxar Intelligence confirmed Wednesday that it is officially working in partnership with Ecopia AI to launch enhanced 2D and 3D global vector maps under the brand Vivid Features. Vivid Features […]

Voyager Technologies is investing into AI software company Latent AI in a move to bring edge computing to space.  Latent AI offers both enterprise and defense AI solutions. The companies […]

EDGX, a new Belgian AI space startup, has raised 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) in funding. The funding will help accelerate the commercialization of EDGX Sterna, a next generation edge […]

Slingshot Aerospace is rolling out a new simulation tool, an AI-powered agent that can imitate satellite actions in training and simulation environments. Called “Talos” — the Thinking Agent for Logical […]

Network Innovations U.S. Government (NIUSG) has deployed a multi-orbit radio frequency (RF) sensing platform, working with Integrasys and AvL Technologies. The platform is designed to deliver processed data at the […]

ST LOUIS — The national security lead for OpenAI demonstrated some of the geospatial capabilities of OpenAI’s new o-series “reasoning” models, which the AI organization says are capable of “complex problem […]

Booz Allen and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, tailored a version of Meta’s open source platform, Llama, for space, to be deployed on the International Space Station (ISS).  Dubbed […]

Spire Global introduced two AI weather models: AI-WX and AI-S2S, developed on the Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 platform, Spire announced on March 18. These models utilize Spire’s satellite data […]

Orion Satellite Systems’ Horizon platform has become Horizon AI, bringing AI-powered data forecasting to satellite connectivity to its customers. The company said the next-generation enhancement allows customers to better anticipate […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected 13 companies to provide geospatial intelligence under the Luno B contract, the agency announced Wednesday.  Luno B is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract […]

Booz Allen Hamilton deployed a generative AI large language model (LLM) in space onboard the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab, the company announced Aug. 1. The LLM was uploaded […]

An upcoming Planet imaging satellite will be equipped with an artificial intelligence chip from Nvidia, Planet announced Monday. Planet will leverage the Nvidia Jetson edge AI platform for its Pelican-2 […]

Satellite imagery company Satellogic released a large dataset of high-resolution imagery to train foundational Earth observation (EO) AI models. Satellogic announced Wednesday it released the full dataset on Hugging Face […]

Not a day goes by without more alarming data about the changing climate and the impact it could have for generations to come. A number of space-based companies aim to […]

Sidus Space is acquiring Exo-Space to expand into the AI sector and improve its solutions for the Earth observation market. Sidus Space is a satellite manufacturing and space services company […]

Private equity firm Trive Capital is acquiring Hypergiant Industries to advance its AI solutions for the defense sector. Trive Capital, based in Dallas, announced the acquisition on Tuesday. Terms of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

EnduroSat has teamed up with IBM and Red Hat for open source, hybrid cloud, and AI technologies on its satellite that recently launched as part of the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare […]

Commercial launch service provider Virgin Orbit will now be able to provide AI-powered insights and data to its government and commercial customers under the terms of a new software agreement […]

GMV has won two new key European Defence Agency (EDA) contracts, for Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The company announced June 2 that it will work on two projects, SAFETERM and […]

Lockheed Martin and NEC Corporation have agreed to extend their partnership utilizing NEC’s System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT), which provides Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities across product […]

BlackSky has been awarded a contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for a research program that will work to automate analysis of satellite imagery. The multi-year research […]

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 […]