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Reveal Technology introduced an upgraded platform that fuses satellite and drone imagery into 3D terrain models for U.S. Army soldiers. The software is designed to support terrain analysis and mission planning even when military communications are disrupted.
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Reveal Technology introduced an upgraded platform that fuses satellite and drone imagery into 3D terrain models for U.S. Army soldiers. The software is designed to support terrain analysis and mission planning even when military communications are disrupted.
Regional operators ABS, Hellas Sat and Arabsat say governments’ growing emphasis on sovereign satellite connectivity is strengthening the appeal of geostationary-orbit fleets. They argue GEO operators can offer governments full control of a satellite when required, an advantage they see in the current geopolitical environment relative to low Earth orbit services.
York Space Systems will support a multi-vendor interoperability demonstration under a recent U.S. Space Force award for the Space Data Network. The demonstration will test how systems from different vendors work together within the network, though the announcement provides no further details on participants or schedule.
Kratos says its OpenSpace ground system platform was used in a KT SAT demonstration of end-to-end connectivity across a native, multi-vendor 5G New Radio non-terrestrial network. The demonstration brought together the ground system and network components to show connectivity across the NTN.
Planet has introduced a continuously updated map of the world’s population, developed with the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab. The collaboration brings Planet’s mapping capabilities together with health research and AI expertise, though the announcement summary provides no further detail on the map’s data or applications.
German authorities detained two Turkish citizens suspected of setting fire last month to a Starlink station in Poland, near Warsaw. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk described the blaze as an act of “hybrid warfare”; Polish authorities suspect Russian involvement. The station is also important to Ukraine, according to one report.
Jena-Optronik says MDA Space will use its ASTRO HP star sensor on a low Earth orbit mission. The announcement marks the sensor’s first mission and adds a component partnership to MDA Space’s work in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, exploration and infrastructure.
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