Satellites are carrying increasingly diverse payloads into orbit, and resolving their often-conflicting onboard schedules requires programming wizardry and a little help from artificial intelligence.

An AI-powered controller on an orbiting satellite executed real-world attitude adjustments in space, showing that AI can fly ...

Two European satellites were successfully launched into orbit on Thursday, marking the beginning of a pioneering and ambitious project to create artificial solar eclipses in space. The launch of the ...

Gothenburg/Stockholm, Sweden, 24 January, 2022 – Swarms of hundreds or thousands of small satellites are increasingly used for bringing data and internet services to Earth. To position, communicate ...

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A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space Agency ...

A raw Hubble image shows a satellite streak. (NASA / ESA / STScI / Kruk et al. / Nature) An analysis of more than 100,000 images from the Hubble Space Telescope, conducted with the aid of artificial ...

A pair of spacecraft have been launched on a mission to help scientists get a better understanding of the sun by creating artificial solar eclipses. Proba-3, which includes two satellites, launched ...