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5+ hour, 51+ min ago   (282+ words) An interest in science has taken one Southern Regional College student from the classroom to Houston Texas and right to the heart of NASA’s space programme. Eighteen-year-old Jack Abbott a level 3 Applied Science student at SRC, was selected to represent…...

17+ hour, 3+ min ago   (590+ words) “Sunlight could power AI in orbit, but sunlight cannot deliver propellant or replace a failed processor,” writes Shahar Bahiri, Co-founder & COO at Moonshot Space. “The next opportunity is building the delivery service that keeps those expensive computers working long enough…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (513+ words) BlackSky Technology was named the exclusive provider of very high resolution electro-optical satellites for the world’s first AI-enabled satellite constellation. The announcement was made at the International Space Summit in Paris, alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, Marlan Space and Loft…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (732+ words) Gem­i­ni has al­ready pi­lot­ed a one-kilo­watt (kW) satel­lite with five em­bed­ded GPUs. This ear­ly space plat­form car­ried da­ta-cen­tre-grade com­pute in­to or­bit, en­abling…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (331+ words) ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, today announced new capabilities for Foresight, its AI-driven orchestration and intelligence platform designed to help satellite operators simplify increasingly complex multi-orbit and multi-service network environments. The new capabilities introduce enhanced AI…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (639+ words) Alex Yang explains how scientists study the Earth with the help of artificial intelligence Thursday September 10 2026, 10:07pm Every day, millions of people open Google Maps to find the quickest route home, search for a restaurant, or explore somewhere they have never…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (592+ words) Marlan Space and Loft Orbital have announced a US$1 billion programme to build what they describe as the world’s largest artificial intelligence satellite infrastructure, scaling from a ten-satellite demonstration to a 50-satellite fleet. Loft Orbital, a global space infrastructure company…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (369+ words) Future spacecraft may no longer need to rely on large fuel reserves to travel through space. Researchers are developing a new generation of solar sails that harness sunlight for propulsion, potentially enabling longer, more sustainable missions while opening up new…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (142+ words) (Saint-Cloud, France, September 10, 2026) – Dassault Aviation welcomes France’s decision to support the VORTEX spaceplane project. This decision, announced today by French President Emmanuel Macron during the International Space Summit held in Paris, will strengthen Europe’s space capabilities and expertise. "This project,…...