WASHINGTON — Canadian startup Kepler Communications launched Sept. 28 the first two satellites built in its own facility as the company ramps up its plans to deploy a constellation for data and Internet of Things services. The two six-unit XL cubesats, known as Kepler-4 and Kepler-5 but nicknamed Antilles and […]
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Two shoebox-sized supercomputer satellites, built in Scotland to monitor shipping movements from low-Earth orbit, are due for launch this afternoon. Each nanosatellite has an onboard supercomputer with machine learning algorithms that can provide ‘hyper-accurate predictions’ of the locations of boats. The the so-called ‘Spire’ satellites will calculate their arrival times […]
On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through […]
When Capella Space’s first operational synthetic aperture radar satellite launched from New Zealand last month on a Rocket Lab Electron, a team of agriculture specialists at The Climate Corporation watched with excitement. “We were really happy,” said Steven Ward, the director of geospatial sciences at The Climate Corporation, a San […]
WASHINGTON — Spire Global will launch its first cubesats with cross links over the next few months, beginning a refresh that will eventually replace its full constellation. “We will be adding inter-satellite links to the constellation,” Spire CEO Peter Platzer told SpaceNews. “It will be rolled out to encompass the […]
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate could still come to iOS smartphones and tablets, Microsoft has confirmed. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gives subscribers access to to over 150 Xbox One games on demand, as well as online multiplayer, monthly Games with Gold releases and exclusive member discounts. In a huge update to the […]
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate could still come to iOS smartphones and tablets, Microsoft has confirmed. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gives subscribers access to to over 150 Xbox One games on demand, as well as online multiplayer, monthly Games with Gold releases and exclusive member discounts. In a huge update to the […]
We had heard that Austria was going to be a tricky beast to get into because of COVID, but the potential embarrassment of being turned away from the border because we were from England was not enough for us to abandon hope. As it happened, after a very cordial chit […]