Tag: AI
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Closing the Last Mile of Earth Observation: How FDEs Turn Geospatial Intelligence into Business Outcomes
“We want to identify risks earlier.” For a mining company managing multiple tailings facilities, this is a natural business objective: regularly acquire satellite imagery, detect changes in the facilities and their surrounding environments, assess potential risk signals, and issue alerts when anomalies may require further attention. From a technical perspective, this may not seem particularly…
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White House Strategy Elevates Space to Top Tier of U.S. Military Technology Priorities
The White House has elevated space, alongside undersea warfare and artificial intelligence, to the highest tier of U.S. military science and technology priorities, signaling a sharper focus on maintaining technological superiority in orbit and extending that advantage from very low Earth orbit to the cislunar environment. Released this week, the 24-page National Security Science and…
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Muon Space Raises $250 Million to Scale Satellite Constellation Production
Muon Space has raised $250 million in a Series C financing round as the California satellite developer moves to expand spacecraft production, broaden its dual-use satellite platforms and support a growing pipeline of commercial, government and international sovereign customers. The oversubscribed financing, announced Aug. 20, brings Muon Space’s total equity funding to more than $386…
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From Building Rockets to Mass-Producing Them, China’s Commercial Space Industry Is Catching Up on Digitalization
In the first half of 2026, China completed 44 space launches, up nearly 26% year on year. Rockets are moving from “a few launches a year” toward high-frequency launch operations, making large-scale production an increasingly urgent priority. And as the industry moves from building individual rockets to mass-producing them, China’s commercial space sector is now…
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SpaceX Publishes All-Hands as Musk Details AI Push, Starship Scale, and Multiplanetary Vision
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk laid out a future for the company that extends far beyond rockets and satellite internet, telling employees that artificial intelligence could soon become SpaceX’s largest business and eventually account for 99% of its value. During the presentation, which SpaceX published on August 11th, Musk said the company is targeting 10 gigawatts…
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China’s Space Computing Is Not the Same as Musk’s Vision
Over the past year, space computing has emerged as one of the hottest topics in the global commercial space industry. From a wave of domestic companies announcing plans for computing satellites, computing constellations, and space-based computing platforms, to SpaceX’s continued discussions around orbital data centers and AI infrastructure, space computing has quickly become a new…
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Liang Wenfeng’s Four-Hour Investor Meeting: 52 Key Remarks on AGI, Open Source, and DeepSeek
Last month, Elsewhere reported on DeepSeek’s fundraising story. Among all the discussions it sparked, none attracted more attention than the now-legendary four-hour investor meeting with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng. Over the past month, fragments of Liang’s comments have circulated widely. We have collected and cross-checked a number of them from various sources. Throughout the conversation,…
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Slingshot Aerospace Lands $70M Space Force AI Contract
Is Slingshot Aerospace Now the Pentagon’s Primary AI Mission Rehearsal Vendor? Nearly $70 million. That is the value of the U.S. Space Force contract Slingshot Aerospace announced on July 15, 2026 — a figure the company describes as the largest single award in its history. The contract expands Slingshot’s AI-driven mission rehearsal capabilities for Space…
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Humans to Titan Summit Asks if Robots Go First
Will Humanoid Robots Reach Titan Before Humans Do? The first-ever Humans to Titan Summit, held June 11–12 in Boulder, Colorado, reached a conclusion that undercuts its own premise: AI-powered humanoid robots may be a more practical vanguard for Saturn’s largest moon than flesh-and-blood astronauts. Pascal Lee — chairman of the Mars Institute, planetary scientist at…
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Firefly Aerospace Acquires Space-ng to Expand Autonomous Spacecraft Capabilities
Firefly Aerospace has acquired AI-powered spacecraft navigation company Space-ng, strengthening its software capabilities for future lunar, orbital and defence missions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Space-ng will be fully integrated into Firefly, with Space-ng co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Ethan Rublee assuming the newly created role of Chief Engineer of Software, where…