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Slingshot Aerospace is bringing the benefits of AI into the satellite arena. The company confirmed Wednesday that it, alongside the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), rolled out a new AI system, called Agatha, that identifies anomalous spacecraft within large satellite constellations. Slingshot’s Agatha was trained on over 60 years of simulated constellation data that...

Boeing and NASA have successfully launched the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on a ULA Atlas V rocket. Liftoff took place at approximately 10:55 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA confirmed minutes later that the spacecraft successfully reached orbit. Starliner will now spend more than 24 hours traveling...

Iridium has won a long-term U.S. government contract that could be worth just over $100 million. It has been tapped by the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command‘s Commercial Space Office (COMSO) for Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) capabilities and security sustainment services (ECS3) for a new five year deal. Iridium announced the new deal,...

Orbex will have even closer ties in Europe, thanks to signing a new framework contract for the Flight Ticket Initiative, a program organized by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA). Interestingly, Orbex is the only UK supplier, and only launch services provider with its own spaceport, to be selected for the Flight Ticket...

Rocket Lab has launched two satellites in 11 days, in another key milestone for the company. It has completed the second of two Electron launches for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) climate change-focused mission. The turnaround was less than two weeks. ‘PREFIRE and Ice’ lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1...

Danish satellite company Space Inventor is teaming up with Addvalue for a mission that aims to show tactically smarter Earth Observation (EO) in the area of maritime surveillance. A new partnership between the two companies will see IDRS deployed for the AI-powered Bifrost In-Orbit Demonstrator mission, due to launch in 2025. The two companies announced...

Speedcast is bringing a new cybersecurity application to its maritime customer base. The company announced Monday that it has developed the application alongside Cydome for its SIGMA network management platform to provide better fleet wide protection for its maritime customers. The Speedcast solution aims to offer a simplified and streamlined approach to navigating the urgent...

SES has made inroads into the satellite market in Uzbekistan. The operator announced Monday that it had signed a deal with Uz-Sat, the Republic of Uzbekistan’s national broadband satellite service provider, to deliver connectivity services throughout Uzbekistan via SES’s GEO satellite, NSS-12. This collaboration aims to support mobile backhaul services across the nation. Uzbekistan has...

NASA, Boeing, and ULA will try, once again, to launch the Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) this Wednesday after scrubbing their latest attempt just 3 minutes and 50 seconds before liftoff on Sunday. The group has two more windows this week – June 5 at 10:52 a.m. and June 6 at 10:29 a.m. (EST) –...

Eutelsat has reached a significant milestone as it looks to make progress in the sustainability arena. Eutelsat said its first generation of more than 600 satellites in LEO achieved a platinum rating in the Space Sustainability Rating (SSR). First imagined at the World Economic Forum (WEF), the rating’s aim is to reduce the creation of...