Firefly Aerospace reported record second-quarter 2026 revenue of $117.7 million, up 45.5% sequentially and beating estimates by 34%, while maintaining full-year guidance of $420 million to $450 millio…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully demonstrated the first in-orbit use of a vision-language model, Google's Gemma 3, aboard Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite. The NAVI-Orbital system achie…
Anthropic and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory partnered in December 2025 to use Claude, an LLM, to plot a 400-meter route for the Perseverance rover on Mars, cutting planning time in half. The author…
For the first time, a satellite has identified and described features in its image scans without needing to check back with ground control. The YAM-9 satellite uses a NASA-built program called NAVI-Or…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the ERNEST rover prototype in California's Colorado Desert, covering 16 miles in 37 hours at speeds up to 0.6 mph—10 times faster than current Mars rovers. The …
NASA's Psyche spacecraft, launched in October 2023, successfully performed a Mars flyby last week, using the planet's gravity to gain a 1,000-mile-per-hour speed boost and adjust its trajectory toward…
In August 1955, the United States traded Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and key figure in U.S. airpower doctrine, for eleven American airmen imprisoned in…