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Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype has reached orbit with four TPUs aboard SpaceX Transporter-18, beginning real-world tests of AI compute in radiation, vacuum and thermal extremes.

Starfish Space’s Otter 24C is now in orbit for NASA’s SSPICY mission, where it will autonomously inspect inactive satellites using computer vision, electric propulsion and robotic servicing technology.

Satlyt raised $8 million to build an AI software layer that processes data aboard existing satellites and ultimately links spacecraft into a distributed orbital cloud.

Firefly Aerospace will fly Starcloud’s SC-1L AI-computing payload in lunar orbit on Elytra to test the core architecture of a future data center around the Moon.

A YouTube-led look at the single unexplained LUX-ZEPLIN nuclear recoil that reached 2.6 sigma—intriguing enough for follow-up, but nowhere near a dark-matter discovery.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 turned what is normally described as an eight-hour ride to orbit into a U.S. human-spaceflight record. The four-person Dragon crew launched from Cape Canaveral at 11:10 a.m. EDT on October 1 and docked with the International Space Station at about 7:05 p.m., just 7 hours and 55 minutes later. NASA’s Crew-13 launch…

NASA selected Blue Origin to build and operate a dedicated Mars communications and navigation network using a new telecommunications orbiter.

NASA selected PRIMA as the first Probe Explorers mission, a cryogenic far-infrared telescope designed to study cold dust, planet formation and galaxy evolution beyond Webb’s wavelength range.