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CLEVELAND — NASA has awarded contracts totaling up to $1.07 billion to Viasat, SES, and Astranis Space Technologies to develop commercial Ka-band space relay capability concepts, as reported on Wednesday, […]
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DUBLIN — Space technology developer Ubotica Technologies demonstrated autonomous onboard observation scheduling aboard an operational satellite in low Earth orbit, the company announced on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026. Using onboard […]
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TOOWOOMBA, Australia — Researchers from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) successfully captured the atmospheric breakup of returning spacecraft using a computed tomographic imaging spectrometer (CTIS) during an airborne observation […]
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LUXEMBOURG — Commercial satellite operator SES has demonstrated a bidirectional optical communications link between ground and space via its meoSphere Pathfinder 1 mission, the company announced on Wednesday, Nov. 4, […]
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TUKWILA, Wash. — In-space servicing developer Starfish Space confirmed on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, that its first Otter servicing spacecraft has suffered an unrecoverable on-orbit failure after ground teams permanently […]
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google’s first data center satellite came online in late October, marking an initial step toward orbital computing, but the tech giant faces significant semiconductor and engineering […]
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LUXEMBOURG — Commercial satellite operator SES has secured airline contracts with Finland’s flag carrier Finnair and Kazakhstan’s Air Astana to deploy multi-orbit in-flight connectivity (IFC) services across their passenger fleets, […]
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In an announcement released Tuesday, Oct. 27, SAP SE disclosed plans to deploy SAP-RPT, its proprietary tabular artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model, aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Hewlett […]
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On Friday, October 23, 2026, Space Intel Report confirmed that Thai satellite operator Thaicom has formally petitioned the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for a 16-month regulatory extension to bring its […]
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Targeting the operational limits of autonomous systems operating beyond continuous communications, physical artificial intelligence developer AstraQua Inc. announced on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, that it has secured a $1,274,990 Small […]
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