The Defense Department is offering $ 100,000 for artificial-intelligence algorithms that can identify items such buildings and trucks in satellite images. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8c80647b7bd44d86b88077/master/pass/Satellite-FINAL.jpg
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Czech army to open satellite center to serve intelligence, NATO
The Czech Republic’s army plans to open a new satellite center to serve the country’s military intelligence and NATO, AP said. The center will receive images of the situation on the ground around the globe from satellites. They will be then analyzed and provided for the alliance’s defense planning and the local army’s use, including […]
SpaceX delays its satellite internet launch to February 21st
Sorry, folks, you’ll have to wait a while longer before SpaceX’s satellite internet launch takes place. With hours to go, SpaceX has delayed the liftoff from its February 17th target to 9:17AM Eastern on February 21st. According to the company, the crew at the Vandenberg launchpad needed extra time to run “final checkouts” of the […]
SpaceX hits two milestones in plan for low-latency satellite broadband
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Olena_T) SpaceX’s satellite broadband plans are getting closer to reality. The company is about to launch two demonstration satellites, and it is on track to get the Federal Communications Commission’s permission to offer satellite Internet service in the US. Neither development is surprising, but they’re both necessary steps for SpaceX […]
Op-ed: The story behind the satellite that Trump wants dead
Enlarge (credit: NASA) There were plenty of striking things about Monday’s budget news, given that it contained lots of draconian cuts that were simultaneously restored because Congress had boosted spending the week before. But perhaps the most striking among them was an item in the proposed budget for NASA: Trump wants to shut off a […]
How the Government Controls Sensitive Satellite Data
It might just buy exclusive rights to image it doesn’t want out there. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a7b558800beae0e1d91a5d0/master/pass/03_olympic-village_pyeongchang_31dec2017_wv3.jpg
NASA confirms: Its undead satellite is operational
Enlarge / IMAGE being prepared for launch. (credit: NASA) Late last month, news broke that a satellite sleuth had spotted what appeared to be a lost NASA probe alive and sending out data. Now, NASA has officially confirmed the identity of the satellite as the IMAGE orbiter and is in the process of restoring the […]
A tiny NASA satellite mapped Earth’s atmospheric ice
Last May, NASA launched a small, bread loaf-sized satellite into orbit around Earth. Dubbed IceCube, the satellite’s mission was to measure cloud ice in our planet’s atmosphere — a challenging task that researchers have previously only been able to perform in limited ways. Sensing ice clouds requires measurements at a range of frequency bands but […]
Japan launches smallest rocket ever to carry satellite into orbit
Japan has set a new spaceflight record — and unlike most of these feats, it’s defined by what wasn’t involved. The country’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the smallest-ever rocket to carry a satellite into orbit, a modest SS-520 sounding rocket modified with a third stage inside its nose cone to get its […]
Mysterious satellite plummets to Earth in fireball (PHOTOS)
A mysterious fireball spotted over Peru on Saturday turned out to be part of an old satellite falling to Earth. The Peruvian Air Force was quick to reveal the source of the flames after the round object was found by locals near Larancahuani in the Puno region near the Bolivian border, La Nacion reports. Locals […]
