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Weekly Recap #24 + Loft Orbital Interview
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Loft Orbital
* Loft Orbital Co-Founder and COO, Alex Greenberg, joins us this week to discuss how they’re executing on AI in space, delivering space sovereignty, and more! [source]
Imagery
* Little Place Labs announces a new partnership with TakeMe2Space to integrate their Edge AI software suite (ORBITFY) into TakeMe2Space’s in-space inference platform (OrbitLab). [source]
* Telespazio Iberica was awarded €20M to develop the Canary Islands constellation, a sovereign set of 8 LEO imaging satellites for environmental monitoring and emergency response. [source]
* Airforcelab awarded BlackSky a Phase III SBIR contract worth up to $99M to develop a large optical satellite payload with improvements including a segmented primary mirror, precision laser metrology and mirror positioning, and a large format focal plane array. [source]
* Remondo raised $20M to build sub-30cm high resolution Earth observation satellites with a unit cost of <$2M using their cost-effective Partial Aperture Imaging System consisting of a ring of small mirrors, a light modulator, and coding system. [source]
* HEO partnered with Satlantis to integrate their software into Satlantis’s payloads for non-Earth imaging and space domain awareness applications. [source]
* Arcfield’s Orion Space Solutions secured a $24M award to deliver advanced space based imaging sensors for environmental monitoring to a proprietary customer. [source]
Space Mobility
* French company Infinite Orbits announced that it was purchasing both the Luxembourg-based operations of LMO and UK-based Lunasa Space to bolster RPO capabilities. [source]
* Portugal’s ANACOM issued ATMOS the first commercial re-entry licence under national jurisdiction, authorising the controlled return of PHOENIX 2.1 from LEO to the Azores. [source]
* Poland-based Liftero won a contract to provide their green chemical propulsion to Indian firm OrbitAID’s for their in-orbit servicing mission. [source]
* Orbit Fab and Airbus announced a collaboration on RADICAL, a project supported by ESA ARTES, to incorporate their RAFTI refuelling valve with Airbus geostationary satellites. [source]
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