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The Asteroid Institute has initiated a service that allows users to calculate spacecraft trajectories and propulsion requirements between Solar System objects.

A startup plans to develop an artificial intelligence engineer that can design physical systems.

The software can generate personalized instructions for workers, tweaking the steps to better guide beginner, intermediate or expert employees.

The partners will use Vertix AI, Google Cloud’s machine learning platform, to analyze decades of solar activity data.

The company, which has its origins in India, says its hyperspectral Earth observation satellites will have a 5-m resolution.

LQMs are sophisticated machine-learning models that are trained on vast amounts of data generated using physics-based methods.

Pixxel, an Indian startup developing hyperspectral satellites, has raised $24 million as part of a Series B extension round.

The company’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, also provided $13 million to the initiative.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded startup SandboxAQ additional funding to further develop its quantum-sensor magnetic navigation system.

AST SpaceMobile has signed a commercial agreement with AT&T to provide satellite-based cellular service to the company’s customers.

Cellphone-from-space startup AST SpaceMobile on Jan. 19 announced a long-awaited investment round,.

Walmart expects to add Wing to its growing drone delivery network, with plans to launch service at two stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The B612 Foundation has made publicly available a nongovernment “precovery service” for the confirmation and orbital refining of asteroid trajectories.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s LTA Research is preparing to begin outdoor flight tests of its Pathfinder 1 large rigid airship.

Social media has become a popular choice of communication for airlines and their customers. We have taken a look at the top ten airlines (by frequency) and their use of social media.