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HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch startup Nayuta Space has completed consecutive Pre-A financing rounds to support development of its unconventional Xuanniao-R rocket concept. Nayuta Space secured an undisclosed amount of

The orbital data center boom is promising opportunities well beyond the pioneers hoping to build colossal, AI-driven computing platforms in space. A mix of ventures developing novel space technologies are

In 2025, Space42’s systems helped save over 660 lives across 25 distress events, from earthquakes in Myanmar, Nepal, and Turkey to cyclones in Mozambique and floods in Nigeria. In each

The space sector is booming. But it is also running up against limits we are only beginning to acknowledge. Like many industries, it is expanding as if resources such as

DENVER — In an experiment, Ukrainian forces used handheld devices to task commercial imaging satellites, bypassing centralized intelligence workflows that typically slow delivery to the battlefield. Earth intelligence firm Vantor,

When Lt. Gen. Michele Bredenkamp takes the stage for the closing keynote at GEOINT Wednesday, it will mark her first as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) —

DENVER — A boom in commercial satellites has flooded the market with imagery, but for military users the challenge has shifted from scarcity to access. Getting the right data at

In a 2022 address to the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the director of the National Reconnaissance Office, Chris Scolese, sounded a warning.  Record numbers of satellites were being launched,

DENVER — Data and intelligence providers, along with governments, are outsourcing the construction and operation of Earth-observation constellations, favoring access to data and analytics over owning the satellites and ground