Tag: Satellite
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GSMA Supports Abuja Declaration on Meaningful Connectivity and Launches ATLAS Umoja
The GSMA supports the Abuja Ministerial Declaration on Meaningful Connectivity for Africa by Ministers and Heads of Delegation at the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) Conference of Plenipotentiaries (CPL-2026), describing it as an important milestone in strengthening Africa’s digital future through evidence-based policy, investment and regional collaboration. The Declaration commits African governments to advancing policies that…
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IHI Aerospace Advances Launch Vehicle Portfolio for Space Missions
IHI Aerospace is developing and manufacturing a range of launch vehicles that support commercial, government and scientific space missions, contributing to Japan’s space transportation capabilities through advanced rocket technologies and launch services. The portfolio includes the Epsilon Launch Vehicle, participation in the H-IIA & H-IIB Launch Systems, the H3 Launch Vehicle and a family of…
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Katalyst’s LINK Advances Through On-Orbit Commissioning
Katalyst Space announced that its robotic spacecraft, LINK, has established communications and completed major commissioning milestones. Following its launch and orbit insertion aboard Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket on July 3, 2026, LINK completed its initial post-launch sequence, including detumble and Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP), before beginning on-orbit system checkouts. Less than a…
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CSF, Novaspace and SpaceTech Gulf Partner on Global Space Capability Mapping Dashboard
The Centre for Space Futures (CSF), together with international partners including Novaspace and SpaceTech Gulf, had signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to jointly develop a Global Space Capability Mapping and Index Dashboard. The agreement had marked the start of a collaborative effort to build a data-driven platform that maps global space capabilities and makes…
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NASA Runs Google’s Gemma AI in Orbit, Letting a Satellite Analyze Its Own Images
The experiment, called NAVI-Orbital, was conducted aboard Loft Orbital’s YAM-9 satellite and achieved its first successful in-orbit demonstration on April 16, 2026. According to the researchers, it represents the first reported demonstration of a vision-language model performing autonomous multimodal inference entirely aboard an orbiting spacecraft. Rather than simply capturing images and transmitting them to Earth…
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Spire Global and SATE Collaborate on ESA-Backed AI Program for Autonomous Constellations
Spire Global, a leading global provider of satellite data, analytics and intelligence, announced a partnership with SATE to develop and validate an artificial intelligence system for real-time satellite health monitoring, anomaly diagnosis, and predictive failure analysis through STRAIDE, an 18-month research and development program funded through subscriptions to ESA by the Italian Space Agency (ASI)…
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Arianespace to Launch MTG-I2 Weather Satellite on Ariane 62
On August 27 2026, Arianespace will launch the MTG-I2 meteorological satellite with the Ariane 62 configuration from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The mission is expected to last approximately 36 minutes from lift-off to satellite separation. The mission MTG-I2 will mark the fourth Ariane 6 launch of the year and the first to a geostationary…
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Dhruva Space and MAHE Launch ASCENT Powering India’s Space Technology
Dhruva Space and Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University, have entered into a strategic partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop ASCENT (Advanced Space Capability, Engineering & New-space Technologies) Centre at the MAHE Manipal campus. ASCENT will advance Space systems engineering, applied research, mission development, and…
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ALL.SPACE Achieves SES O3b mPOWER Certification for Hydra MAX (Gen-2)
ALL.SPACE, a leader in resilient multi-network communications-on-the-move, has announced that its second-generation terminal, Hydra MAX, has achieved certification for operation on SES’s O3b mPOWER network, expanding access to high-performance medium earth orbit (MEO) connectivity for government and defense users. The milestone follows the certification of ALL.SPACE’s first-generation terminal capability on O3b mPOWER earlier this year,…
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HawkEye 360 Secures Multi-Year RF Data Contract with Indian Navy
HawkEye 360, Inc., a global provider of signals intelligence data and analytics, has announced it has been awarded a multi-year contract to deliver advanced space-based RF data and analytics to the Indian Navy and regional partner nations, strengthening the Indian Ocean Region’s maritime domain awareness and enhancing security cooperation across the Indo-Pacific. This award was…