Tag: Ground
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Firefly Aerospace Partners with NVIDIA for On-Orbit Processing on Ocula Moon Imaging Service
Firefly Aerospace, a market-leading space and defense technology company, announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to enable rapid on-orbit processing in lunar orbit for Firefly’s Ocula Moon imaging service. As part of the collaboration, an NVIDIA Jetson module was embedded on high-resolution Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory telescopes and delivered to Firefly’s spacecraft facility ahead of integration…
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LeoLabs Launches Delta AI-Powered Threat Detection System for Space Security Missions
LeoLabs, the world’s leading mission partner for persistent Orbital Intelligence, announced the launch of LeoLabs Delta, its AI-powered, advanced threat detection and characterization system designed for U.S. and Allied national security missions. Delta replaces LeoLabs’ previous space domain awareness (SDA) solution, LeoGuard, by delivering more comprehensive, actionable intelligence. Built for the next era of space…
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Motorola Expands Mission-Critical Communication and AI with T-Satellite
Motorola Solutions and T-Mobile announced a collaboration to bring satellite connectivity to Motorola Solutions’ APX NEXT smart radios. The radios, designed to intelligently unify networks including land mobile radio (LMR), 5G and Wi-Fi, can now operate leveraging T-Priority from T-Mobile – bringing first responders more capacity and faster speeds. They can also access T-Satellite with Starlink’s…
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True Anomaly Advances Autonomous Orbital Operations with Jackal Spacecraft Platform
True Anomaly is advancing next-generation spacecraft capabilities with the Jackal autonomous orbital vehicle (AOV), a platform designed to enable highly maneuverable, mission-adaptive and sensor-rich operations across contested orbital environments. Engineered to support a wide range of mission profiles, Jackal represents a new class of spacecraft focused on autonomy, agility and modularity for modern space operations.…
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Littlebird and Lacuna Partners to Expand the Precision+ Safety Network for Families
Littlebird, the company building the screen-free safety wearable and connected safety operating system for families, announced a strategic partnership with Lacuna Space to expand the reach and resilience of its Precision+ safety network. Littlebird is pioneering a new model for family safety built on layered connectivity partnerships rather than reliance on any single network. Littlebird…
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Planet Labs Demonstrates AI-Powered Onboard Object Detection on Pelican-4 Satellite
Following the announcement of a strategic initiative with NVIDIA, Planet Labs PBC announced a landmark technical achievement: the successful deployment and execution of AI-driven object detection directly onboard its Pelican-4 satellite, paving the way toward on-orbit compute for rapid insights, a capability Planet calls Planetary Intelligence. On March 25th, 500km over Alice Springs, Australia, Planet’s Pelican-4 captured…
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European Investment Bank Provides €30 M Loan to PLD Space for MIURA 5 Rocket Development
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €30 million venture debt loan with PLD Space, an international space transportation company headquartered in Elche, Spain, to support the final development stage of MIURA 5, the company’s rocket designed to deploy small satellites into orbit. The operation represents the EIB’s first direct investment in small launchers for…
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Royal Canadian Navy Selects ALL.SPACE Hydra 4 Mobility Terminal for Maritime SATCOM
ALL.SPACE, a leader in multi-orbit, multi-link SATCOM solutions, announced that the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) has acquired a Hydra 4 multi-band, multi-orbit mobility terminal for shore-based testing and evaluation at Maritime Forces Pacific facilities in Victoria, BC. This supports the Navy’s next-generation SATCOM terminal program for current and future operations. Hydra 4 is a quad-link,…
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Astroscale and Exotrail Advances France-Japan Cooperation on Space Sustainability
Astroscale France, a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, and Exotrail, a French company specialising in the design, manufacturing and operation of multi-orbit and multi-mission satellites, have signed a contract to develop a satellite deorbiting mission, marking a major advancement in France-Japan cooperation on…
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Exolaunch to Launch Eight Satellites for JAXA on Rocket Lab Electron Mission
Exolaunch, a global leader in launch mission management, satellite integration, and deployment services, will deploy eight customer satellites on the upcoming Kakushin Rising mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). For this mission, Exolaunch’s EXOpod NOVA deployers have been selected to provide satellite deployment services, supporting the safe and precise release of the spacecraft…