Focus: AI and Machine Learning

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...

Microsoft is making a play to be the cloud platform of choice for the space industry as it unveiled Azure Space on Tuesday, which will bring together Azure technology and...

SES’s relationship with Microsoft continues to deepen. Last year, the operator reached a deal with Microsoft to become an ExpressRoute partner and to offer cloud-enabled video playout services. Now, SES is becoming...

Microsoft is getting into the satellite ground station business with Azure Orbital. Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of the offering, a ground station service that allows satellite operators to...