SpaceX announces $100 billion launch complex in Louisiana for its AI satellites
On 125,000 acres on Pecan Island, "Starbase, Louisiana" is expected to host thousands of Starship flights per year, with the first launch targeted in 2029.
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On 125,000 acres on Pecan Island, "Starbase, Louisiana" is expected to host thousands of Starship flights per year, with the first launch targeted in 2029.
Combined with Sedaro's software stack, the Hivemind system drove imaging, diagnostics, batteries and orientation of a NOVI Space satellite over 24-hour windows.
Scheduled for August 30, NASA's next major observatory is carrying the first active coronagraph sent into space and relying on automated pipelines for its data stream.
Presented at the Small Satellite Conference on 22 August, a British demonstrator entrusts on board the planning of observations and the detection of anomalies, under the supervision of an autonomy supervisor.
The company, which wants to install AI data centers in orbit, is completing its Series A. Nvidia and Cisco Investments are taking a stake in the company, bringing the total raised to $450 million.
The Series C values the Californian manufacturer at $1.5 billion and is intended to finance larger platforms, designed for power-hungry and compute-intensive payloads.
Pixxel and Sarvam prepare Pathfinder, a 200 kg satellite combining hyperspectral imaging and data center class calculation, to process images directly in orbit by the end of 2026.
A model developed at NJIT reads the acoustic waves and magnetic field captured by NASA's solar observatory to anticipate the emergence of areas that cause solar storms.
Launched in July, the Anduril-26 was put into operation and controlled from the ground via the Lattice mesh network, and returned the first calibrated images of its three sensors.
The first two Oriental Smart Eye hyperspectral satellites compress fifteen seconds of footage into a few kilobytes rather than sending gigabytes of raw data back to the ground.
Each satellite must carry 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera processors under 250 kW of peak power. The prototype is expected in early 2027, with a constellation of one million computing nodes on the horizon.