Technology, new aerospace, IoT. Data, services and insight via satellites and UAVs. Startups, early stage investing
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Eric Anderson retweeted
Announcing the 2nd annual MIT ARCLab Prize for AI Innovation in Space! This year’s challenge from @AstrodynamicMIT: creating an AI model to forecast space weather to help protect critical satellite systems. Join the 1st phase of the challenge on Nov. 15!
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ALT a view of the Earth from space, capturing the vibrant auroras over the planet. The auroras display a brilliant spectrum of green and subtle hints of red, streaming upwards into the dark of space filled with small, distant stars. The curvature of the Earth is visible, with a faint, glowing line marking the atmospheric boundary. A section of a satellite structure is visible on the bottom right, with metal bars and panels partially illuminated by the aurora's glow.
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On Nov 6, @CommerceGov will host a public meeting on space export controls with experts from @StateDept & @BISgov to discuss the new rulemakings and answer questions. Register: space.commerce.gov/export24
#SpacePolicy #ITAR
ALT Scissors cutting through red tape wrapped around a satellite orbiting Earth
Eric Anderson retweeted
We have a telescope!🤩
Last week, summit staff successfully installed Rubin Observatory's combined primary/tertiary mirror.
With all three mirrors & the commissioning camera in place, we officially—for the first time in 15 years of construction—have a complete telescope!🥳
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Eric Anderson retweeted
✅ Joby acquires Xwing autonomy division ✅
We're pleased to announce that Joby has acquired the autonomy division of @xwinginc, a leader in the development of autonomous technology for aviation.
Founded in 2016, Xwing has completed 250 fully autonomous flights and more than 500 auto-landings to date, becoming the first company to receive an official project designation for the certification of a large uncrewed aerial system (UAS) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in April 2023 and the first to receive an Air Force Military Flight Release in 2024.
The Superpilot software, developed in-house at Xwing enables safe, uncrewed operations, supervised from the ground, and is the world’s first fully autonomous gate-to-gate flight technology.
While the aircraft Joby is certifying will have a fully-qualified pilot on board, we recognize that a future generation of autonomous aircraft will play an important part in unlocking our vision of making clean and affordable aerial mobility as accessible as possible and this acquisition places Joby at the forefront of aviation autonomy.
Welcome to the Joby team!
Read more: jobyaviation.com/news/joby-a…
Eric Anderson retweeted
Regarding the recent raise: Rocket Lab felt constrained in their ability to exercise some of those strategic inorganic acquisition opportunities. “Right now is a great time to go shopping”, right now the ability for companies to raise capital is very very challenging. “We’re seeing real opportunities, we’re seeing other distressed assets that we can add to our portfolio”. This raise is not for Neutron but for those inorganic opportunities.
Eric Anderson retweeted
Attention undergraduate and graduate students! The 31st Annual Frank J. Redd Student Competition is open! Visit our page for details and a chance to present onstage at SmallSat and win cash awards. smallsat.org/students/studen…
Eric Anderson retweeted
Excellent panel on crunching #EarthObservation data at #SmallsatSymposium. Kudos to moderator @AndOneTech for encouraging panelists to provide real-world examples of leveraging AI (including LLMs), ML and cloud tools to bring value to EO data.
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🌌Countdown to #SmallSat2024 - just 1 week left! 🚀
Feb 7th, 8:30 am PT: Don't miss our Kate Zimmerman with Dr. Eric Anderson, Anthony Baker, and Dennis Gatens in a panel on "CRUNCHING EO DATA: ML, AI AND CLOUD TOOLS." Ready for insightful discussions with industry experts! 🛰️
Eric Anderson retweeted
Posted 6th annual review of my Jan 1st, 2018, predictions on autonomous driving cars (+electric+flying), robotics and AI, and human spaceflight. The hype around them all meant that people were expecting large scale deployments in unrealistic timeframes. rodneybroooks dot com
Eric Anderson retweeted
Have 20 minutes to spare? Take this excellent launch markets educational video by @eager_space
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lv_Omn…
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Saturday's launch by #SpaceX of 13 satellites for the @SemperCitiusSDA brings Tranche 0 deployed constellation to 23 satellites. Tranche 1 build phase is well underway. Tranche 2 procurement phase has started. To date, SDA has awarded $5.9B for 283 PWSA & related satellites.
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Recently finished the @ashleevance book When the Heavens Went On Sale. Really recommend!
The most interesting part to me was the narrative about why SpaceX started flying Transporter rideshare missions
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Eric Anderson retweeted
Today we release our annual facts & figures report. The press presentation is available for download. Get it here:
eurospace.org/publication/eu…
And scroll down for highlights.
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Eric Anderson retweeted
The Eurospace observatory of the #newspace now counts more than 1000 active companies in the space and transportation infrastructure domains (no downstream included). Total funds raised: 48B$, total employment: 52k.
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ALT Chart: newspace companies funds and employment by segment
Eric Anderson retweeted
Nasa's LRO has imaged the crash site of ispace's Hakuto-R M1 lander, which attempted a landing last month. It was carrying the UAE's Rashid rover.
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Excellent #smallsat manufacturing panel moderated by @AndOneTech at #SmallsatSymposium. Panelist differ on vertical integration but agree that small commercial constellations are good business opportunity. @AirbusSpace @TerranOrbital @LeoStellaLLC @NanoAvionics @redwire
Eric Anderson retweeted
So we have a new space SPAC breeding. Last year I worked with a master student on a toolbox to analyse the SPAC thesis. Let's see how Intuitive Machines performs on our indicators. 👉This is NOT investment advice.
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Intuitive Machines, a premiere space exploration company, plans to go public through a business combination with Inflection Point Acquisition Company $IPAX to accelerate growth in the lunar economy. Read the full press release here for additional details:
intuitivemachines.com/invest…
