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TerraByte AI expands its ‘Earth Search Engine’ with satellite imagery partnership and interactive features
An interactive map displays the sites of wildfires, earthquakes and severe weather events, with links to satellite imagery. (Credit: TerraByte) Two months after emerging from stealth mode, TerraByte AI is using artificial intelligence and a new partnership to upgrade its “Earth Search Engine.” The startup, which maintains operations in Seattle as well as San Francisco,…
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Boeing Directs All Space Investment to Defense as Starliner Recovery Continues
The comments come as Starliner has drawn nearly all public attention within Boeing’s space portfolio. A crew flight test with NASA left two astronauts on the International Space Station far longer than originally expected after thruster failures, and the capsule ultimately returned to Earth uncrewed. Parker said Boeing is directing all of its space investment…
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Launch Preview: Falcon 9, Starship, and Chinese rockets scheduled to launch
After last week’s aborted Starship Flight 13 launch, SpaceX is scheduling a new attempt as early as Thursday, July 23, from Starbase in Texas. Besides Flight 13, the company has two Starlink launches from California scheduled, along with a rare expendable Falcon 9 launch from Florida. China is planning for four launches this week, including…
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Interlune Demonstrates 99% Pure Helium-3 Production With New Cold Capture Technology
The Seattle-based startup announced that its proprietary Cold Capture™ technology successfully extracted and purified helium-3 from Grade A helium. Rather than waiting until the 2030s for material from the Moon, the company says the system can immediately expand Earth’s supply of one of the world’s rarest industrial gases while validating the same core technology it…
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Slingshot Aerospace Develops AI Space Solutions for Space Ops and Domain Awareness
Slingshot Aerospace is developing a portfolio of AI-powered space solutions designed to help government agencies, commercial satellite operators, manufacturers, research organizations and defence users manage increasingly complex orbital operations. Through the Space Operations Intelligence & Autonomy (SOIA) architecture, the company combines sensing, data fusion, simulation, analytics and AI-driven decision support within a unified operational environment,…
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SpaceX launches Starlink mission from California a day after last-second abort
The Starlink 17-39 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 21, 2026. Image: SapceX.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two dozen Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites to its massive low Earth orbit constellation on Tuesday, a day after liftoff was scrubbed by a rare…
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ispace and SKY Perfect JSAT Partner on Lunar Communications Infrastructure
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and ispace, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly evaluate the use of SKY Perfect JSAT’s commercial near-Earth tracking network service, “JSAT Space Line”. Under the MoU, the companies will exchange technical information and conduct system compatibility studies with the aim of establishing communications between JSAT Space Line ground…
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Mars Society and South Seattle College strike a deal to build a simulated space habitat
Two analog astronauts trudge toward the Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. (Mars Society Photo) The Mars Society is planning to build a Pacific Northwest research station suitable for simulating missions to the moon or Mars, in partnership with South Seattle College. The nonprofit space advocacy group announced today that its executive director,…
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Saber Astronautics Launches Saber Commander Spacecraft Operations Software
Saber Astronautics has announced the release of Saber Commander, its new spacecraft and constellation operations software. Saber Commander builds on the operational heritage of the Predictive Ground Station Interface (PIGI), recognised in the space industry for developing techniques in digital twin and machine learning to manage individual satellites. Saber Commander preserves that foundational heritage while…
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ThinKom GT2517 Secures SES Government Technology Certification
ThinKom Solutions, announced that the ThinAir GT2517 terminal completed SES’ Government Technology Certification (GTC) program to operate on SES’ O3b mPOWER MEO constellation. The ThinAir GT2517 is the first airborne antenna to complete GTC, including productization, for the O3b mPOWER fleet on SES’ sovereign offering. ThinKom’s ThinAir GT2517 terminal can be deployed across the full range of…