Hivemind's first flight in orbit. Onboard a NOVI Space... satellite in low Earth orbit, Hivemind integrated with Sedaro’s Autonomy Framework for the Edge (SAFE), demonstrating trusted satellite autonomy capabilities. Hivemind made autonomous mission decisions while SAFE provided mission assurance, showing how autonomy can help operators move from managing a single satellite to coordinating fleets at scale. The demonstration also proved that Hivemind can operate on existing satellites not originally designed for autonomy. Full release: Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.show more

One small step for Hivemind, one giant leap for... mission autonomy. Hivemind is going to space! Shield AI and Sedaro are partnering to send Hivemind to space, bringing the same resilient, edge-based autonomy that is redefining warfare to satellites delivering critical infrastructure and national defense capabilities. Our strategic partnership establishes Hivemind Pilot as Sedaro’s preferred autonomy software for on-orbit demonstrations, while also enabling the use of the Sedaro Platform for developing, testing, and demonstrating Hivemind in space-relevant scenarios. “Combining Hivemind Pilot with Sedaro’s high-fidelity models and simulation environment will unlock multi-agent cognitive teaming for space applications and new mission capabilities for our customers.” - Christian Gutierrez, Vice President of Hivemind Solutions. Hivemind is multi-domain mission autonomy. We've done autonomy for air, ground, and surface applications this year, and we couldn't be more excited to go to space. If your systems need autonomy, we'd love to work with you and help give your systems the best autonomy in the business. Read the full press release: Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.show more

One company alone managing more than 11,000 satellites in... orbit is completely insane SpaceX is basically becoming the traffic controller of low Earth orbit Every Starlink satellite has autonomous collision avoidance onboard If collision probability rises above just 1 in 100,000, the satellite begins planning an avoidance maneuver That is 10× more conservative than the 1-in-10,000 industry threshold SpaceX cites But the impressive part goes beyond Starlink itself SpaceX continuously shares precise orbital data and planned trajectories with the U.S. Space Force, LeoLabs and other satellite operators so everyone can screen for potential conjunctions and coordinate maneuvers Starlink satellites can then calculate safer trajectories and autonomously move when needed 11,000+ spacecraft Constantly moving Constantly tracking risk Constantly coordinating with everything else in orbit SpaceX built the largest satellite constellation in history and then built an autonomous traffic management system around itshow more

FleetLab 1.0 is LIVE. Join us for the first-ever... Saronic hackathon — where your code will run real autonomous boats. We are building autonomous surface vessels from the ground up — designing hardware, software, and autonomy systems in-house and deploying them at scale. FleetLab 1.0 puts you in the middle of our work, challenging you to solve the same autonomy problems our team faces in the real world. Winning teams will watch their code deploy live on Saronic’s autonomous test vessels. Participants will choose one of three tracks: 📍 Track 1: UI: Visualizing Autonomous Decisions How should operators understand what an autonomous system is thinking? Design interfaces and apps that make autonomy transparent, intuitive, and mission-ready. 📍 Track 2: Autonomy + Navigation Develop logic, modeling, or machine learning approaches that improve decision-making in dynamic maritime environments. 📍 Track 3: Machine Learning Track Apply machine learning techniques to real autonomy-focused datasets and deployment scenarios. Are you a Texas-based student and ready to take on the challenge? Application link in the first comment!show more

The future fight won’t be won by size or... scale alone. It’ll be won by those who can innovate, adapt, and move at speed. That idea was at the heart of Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski’s recent conversation with Erik Torenberg of Andreesen Horowitz and Gary Steele Steele, CEO of Shield AI on The a16z Podcast. In a time of accelerating geopolitical risk, Horacio shared why speed—in technology, partnerships, and deployment—is the decisive factor for national security. Together with Shield AI and its Hivemind autonomy stack, Booz Allen is helping bring advanced, mission-ready AI to the edge faster. Listen to the full episode:show more

🇵🇰🚀 Pakistan Completes EO-3 Launch, Accelerating Its Satellite Constellation... Drive Pakistan has successfully placed its PRSC EO-3 Earth Observation Satellite into orbit, marking a significant step in the country’s expanding space programme. The satellite, developed domestically by SUPARCO, was launched from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, underscoring a model of local manufacturing supported by external launch capability. EO-3 completes a three satellite Earth Observation series: ◽EO-1 (2025) ◽EO-2 (February 2026) ◽EO-3 (latest launch) Together, they form the backbone of a planned integrated Earth Observation system aimed at improving data availability and coverage. Pakistan now operates 5+ Earth observation satellites, with most deployed in the last two years, highlighting a noticeable acceleration in activity. Officials describe the programme as part of a broader shift: 📡 From isolated missions → to a coordinated satellite network From external reliance → to increasing data independence 🚀 From slow launches → to a structured rollout strategy The EO-3 mission also reflects continued technical cooperation with China, particularly in launch services. With additional satellites expected in the coming years, Pakistan appears to be moving toward a multi satellite constellation designed for regular, wide area monitoring. The direction is clear: a steady build up rather than a one off achievement.show more

How can AI agents gain true autonomy? CARV ID... (ERC-7231) is transforming AI and blockchain integration by creating trustless, sovereign AI agents. This identity protocol aggregates cross-chain and off-chain data, enabling AI Beings to operate with verified identity, privacy, and autonomy. By unifying fragmented data and enriching it with actionable metrics, CARV ID powers the D.A.T.A Framework, giving AI agents access to contextualized insights while preserving user data sovereignty. This means developers can build AI systems that learn, evolve, and act independently within a secure, decentralized ecosystem, free from centralized control. For businesses and researchers, this opens a new frontier where AI-driven decisions are transparent, verifiable, and privacy-preserved. CARV's integration of Solana scalability and Ethereum security ensures these trustless AI agents perform with speed at scale. The future is clear: AI Beings will no longer be mere tools, they will be sovereign participants in digital economies. What implications do you see for AI autonomy in blockchain?show more

Every year, the best young engineers in the world... compete at the FIRST Robotics Competition. This year, a team coached by one of our own came out on top. Jonathan Mi, an electrical design engineer at Shield AI, mentored Team 4414, HighTide, who took first place across 93,000 students, 3,700 teams, and 35 countries. They designed, programmed, and built their robot from scratch. Watch what it does. The strongest engineers build up everyone around them. That's who we hire. Congrats to HighTide, and when graduation comes, you know where to find us! Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.show more

We’re pleased to announce that the Connecta IoT Network... has been formally included in the Executive Order on the Use of Radio Frequencies Without a Permit issued by the Danish Digital Agency. This decision enables our LoRaWAN-based satellite IoT services in the 862–870 MHz band in Denmark. With this step, Denmark becomes the first country in Europe to explicitly enable satellite-IoT communications in SRD bands and anchor them directly in national regulation. Under the updated framework, the Connecta IoT Network is permitted to operate low-power radio equipment communicating with satellites (LPD-S / satellite IoT) on a licence-exempt basis in Denmark. This forward-looking move positions Denmark as a frontrunner in next-generation satellite IoT connectivity and sets an important precedent for other administrations as we continue to advance accessible, standards-aligned IoT connectivity worldwide. For the full text of the executive order, please see: #WeArePlanS #PlanS #ConnectaIoT #LoRaWAN #Denmarkshow more

🚨 A SATELLITE JUST REVEALED SOMETHING SHOCKING: GPS JAMMING... IS FAR MORE WIDESPREAD THAN ANYONE REALIZED. An experimental navigation satellite called Pulsar-0, flying just 500 km above Earth, has mapped GPS signal tampering from space for the first time and the scale surprised even the engineers who built it. As soon as the satellite passed over Europe and parts of the Middle East, its GPS receiver showed massive signal degradation. In the worst areas, signal strength dropped from a normal 40 decibels all the way down to just 10 decibels. Why this matters: • Ground-based jammers (used in conflicts like Ukraine and the Middle East) are now reaching all the way into low Earth orbit • Satellites like Starlink that rely on GPS for collision avoidance and positioning are being affected across a huge region from France to the borders of Pakistan • When GPS drops out, satellites can’t accurately point their antennas, maintain formation, or safely maneuver • This isn’t just a military problem it threatens the growing network of commercial satellites we increasingly depend on The deeper implication: We’ve long known that GPS signals on the ground can be jammed. What we didn’t fully appreciate is how far those jamming signals reach into space. Even satellites in low Earth orbit the backbone of global communications, Earth observation, and future mega-constellations are now operating in an increasingly hostile electromagnetic environment. Xona’s upcoming constellation aims to fix this with signals 100 times stronger than traditional GPS. But the bigger question remains: as more nations and groups weaponize jamming and spoofing, how resilient will our orbital infrastructure actually be? How concerned are you that GPS jamming is now reaching into space and affecting satellites? Follow for more frontier space technology and the hidden vulnerabilities of our orbital systems.show more

🚨 BIG: 🇮🇳 India to soon join the global... race for SpaceX-like reusable rockets Chennai-based space startup Agnikul Cosmos has announced Mission-02, a bold plan to attempt India's first recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster by a private company. The mission aims to safely recover the booster for refurbishment and reuse, while repurposing the upper stage into a functional in-orbit platform instead of letting it become debris. This is a major step toward reusable launch vehicles that can significantly reduce costs and make satellite launches more affordable and sustainable. Agnikul is already a leader in 3D-printed rocket engines that can be produced rapidly. It is now advancing reusability technologies, backed by multiple patents from 🇮🇳 India, the 🇺🇸 US, and 🇪🇺 Europe. With support from ISRO and IN-SPACe, this progress highlights the rapid growth of India's private space sector. Alongside recent private orbital launches like Skyroot’s Vikram-1, the country is building strong self-reliance in space technology. A proud leap forward for Made in India innovation. 🇮🇳show more

🚨 10,000 STARLINK SATELLITES IN ORBIT - AND NOBODY'S... EVEN CLOSE SpaceX crossed 10K satellites last week. For context: the entire world launched around 8,700 total spacecraft in all of history before Starlink started. They're completing Starlink missions every 48 hours now. Just set a California pad turnaround record - 2 days, 10 hours between launches from the same facility. That's industrial-scale space operations, not aerospace. The constellation now blankets the planet with low-latency internet from pole to pole. Amazon's Project Kuiper? Still on the launchpad. OneWeb? Bankrupt and resurrected, now limping along. China's building their own - years behind. SpaceX isn't winning the satellite internet race. They've won it long ago. Everyone else is fighting for scraps. Source: Spaceflight Now, Space[dot]com, LaunchHeaven on YTshow more

🚨 BREAKING: Starcloud just turned Starlink’s laser network into... the backbone for orbital AI data centers. A company called Starcloud has ordered 50+ Starlink Mini Laser terminals to equip 25+ future satellites. Not ground stations. Not fiber cables. Direct laser-linked computing nodes in orbit plugged straight into SpaceX’s space-based optical mesh. This is the sci-fi future arriving now: Orbital cloud computing AI servers floating in space Powered by 24/7 sunlight Connected globally at light speed via Starlink lasers The insane part: Starcloud says its satellites will eventually handle full AI inference and training workloads directly in orbit. Data won’t always need to come back to Earth to be processed. The advantages are massive: • Unlimited solar energy (no grid limits) • Zero land or water constraints • Passive radiative cooling in vacuum • Instant global relay with zero terrestrial bottlenecks • Near real-time Earth observation analysis Their first major spacecraft (Starcloud-3) is designed for 200 kilowatts in orbit a full-on space-based data center node, not just a satellite. And here’s the bigger picture: SpaceX has filed plans for up to ONE MILLION orbital data centers of its own. Read that again. We may be watching the birth of the first true space-based computing infrastructure layer for civilization. The internet already left the ground. Now AI might be next. What happens when the cloud literally moves into space? Follow for more frontier physics and future technology.show more

My 7-year-old son thinks it’s completely normal for me... to play chess with him while Tesla FSD drives us. But the more I think about this… it hit me. To him, Tesla FSD may not look like some amazing piece of technology... to him it’s just normal life. He never experienced a world where every second in a car required the driver to be fully focused on steering, braking, and navigating. For him, he sees a car that safely handles the driving while Dad spends that time talking with him, teaching him, laughing with him, or playing a game of chess. That’s a pretty big shift when you really think about it. Every generation grows up taking for granted things that once seemed impossible. The internet. Smartphones. Video calls. Now we’re watching the beginning of that same transition with autonomy. For many adults, FSD still feels futuristic. For kids growing up today, it’s become the way cars work. What’s fascinating is that the biggest change is what people do with the time it gives back. Instead of staring at the road for hours, families can spend more time together, learn, work, relax, or simply enjoy the ride. My son doesn’t see autonomy as a breakthrough, like me. He sees this as normal. And that’s how I know the future is here.show more

On April 26th, 2026, the Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8... satellite captured a full day of Earth. Every ten minutes, for twenty-four hours, it photographed a complete hemisphere of the planet. One hundred forty-four individual photographs. No editing for content. No compositing. No CGI. No green screen. No hologram. No drawings. These are photographs, assembled into video. Himawari-8 is a geostationary weather satellite operated by Japan. It orbits at roughly twenty-two thousand miles above the equator, remaining fixed over one spot on the planet, orbiting at the same rate Earth rotates. It was launched in 2014. It takes photographs of Earth in visible light and infrared. It does this every ten minutes, every single day, year after year. These images are available to the public. Meteorologists worldwide use them for weather forecasting. News organizations use them. Scientists use them. You can access them yourself right now. What you're seeing over that twenty-four hour period is the terminator line moving -- the day-night boundary shifting as the planet's rotation carries different regions into and out of sunlight, all viewed from a fixed point in space. It is not a composite. It is not a trick. The curvature you see is not distortion. It is not perspective compression. It is the actual shape of the Earth as photographed by an independent satellite operated by a nation with no interest in perpetuating a NASA conspiracy. This is what Earth looks like from space. This is the globe holding atmosphere in place with gravity as you witness weather patterns moving across its surface. This is reality. (No fisheye lens was harmed in the making of this video.)show more

🚨 SPACEX IS ABOUT TO TEST A RADICALLY DIFFERENT... KIND OF SPACECRAFT AND IT COULD UPEND THE ENTIRE ORBITAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to fly the first prototype of Starfall, a flat, disk-shaped reentry capsule designed to return up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo from orbit in a single flight. That’s roughly 30 times more payload capacity than current commercial return vehicles (like those from Varda Space Industries). It’s not a scaled-down Dragon it’s a completely different approach: no onboard deorbit engine, a wide flat disk geometry, and Starlink terminals mounted to maintain communication through the plasma blackout during reentry. Why this matters: • Current orbital manufacturing companies are limited to returning only dozens of kilograms per mission • Starfall’s design could make large-scale commercial production in space economically viable for the first time • SpaceX would be directly competing with companies (like Varda) that currently pay SpaceX to launch their capsules • Successfully testing Starlink through reentry plasma would be a major technical win with applications across SpaceX’s vehicles The deeper implication: SpaceX is quietly expanding its vertical integration. They already dominate launch. Now they’re moving into the return leg of the orbital manufacturing supply chain the part that has been the biggest bottleneck for companies trying to make products in microgravity and bring them back to Earth. If Starfall works at scale, it doesn’t just give SpaceX another revenue stream. It gives them significant control over the economics of an entire emerging industry. The disk shape and high-capacity design suggest they’re thinking about high-cadence, lower-cost returns rather than the traditional high-value, low-volume approach. This is classic SpaceX: take an existing problem (expensive, low-capacity return from orbit), apply first-principles thinking to the vehicle design, and try to make it dramatically cheaper and higher volume. How do you think this move into orbital return changes the competitive landscape for companies trying to build businesses in space manufacturing? Follow for more analysis on SpaceX’s expanding role across the space economy.show more

Tesla designed the Cybercab so a blind person can... ride without needing any help. And you can see that in the hardware. Inside the Cybercab, the door release has a warning-triangle door icon and Braille that reads OPEN. Lift it lightly and the butterfly door opens. Pull it all the way to the second detent and it becomes the mechanical emergency release, meaning it can still open the door even if the car has zero power. Your fingers can tell you exactly what it is before you pull it. Then look overhead. Between the dome lights is another button. Braille says STOP. Press it and Cybercab requests an immediate pull-over, ends the ride, and connects you with Robotaxi Support. Think about why those two controls matter so much… There’s no steering wheel. There’s no pedals. There’s no driver sitting up front to ask for help. So Tesla made sure a blind passenger can physically find the two most important controls, identify them by touch, and use them independently. The Tesla team didn’t stop there… The doors can also automatically open when your phone approaches it. The Robotaxi app works with screen readers. The seats are positioned around wheelchair height. There’s room in the cabin for a service animal and trunk space for things like a folded wheelchair or cane. Voice and audio cues can replace information you would normally need to see on a screen. Cybercab accessibility is a core part of the product and experience design… Elon even told us the goal is to make sure Cybercab meets the needs of the blind. Tesla even once brought a production Cybercab to the National Federation of the Blind convention in Austin so blind attendees could actually get inside, touch the controls, and experience it themselves. True autonomy is not true freedom if you still need another person beside you just to use it. Cybercab is the definition of true autonomy.show more

This is WILD! A small startup just declared war... on America's most powerful telecom companies and nobody is talking about it. For decades, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have had an iron grip on how Americans connect to the world. They built the towers, they set the prices, and you had no real choice but to pay whatever they demanded. That stranglehold ends today. US Mobile just bundled Starlink satellite home internet together with unlimited wireless service across all three major networks and they are charging under $50 a month for the whole thing. Let that land for a second. You are getting home internet beamed down from space, plus full cellular coverage on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile's networks, all inside one bill that costs less than most people pay for just their phone plan alone. The big carriers have been charging $120 a month just for Starlink residential internet on its own. US Mobile is handing you that same service plus an unlimited phone plan for less than half of that price. This is not a discount carrier cutting corners. US Mobile is an MVNO, a company that leases capacity from all three major networks at wholesale rates and packages them into something the big carriers would never offer, because doing so would cannibalize their own revenue streams. Their internal network names are Warp, Darkstar, and Lightspeed. Those are Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, all three, simultaneously available to one customer on one plan. Now they are adding a fourth layer from orbit. Starlink's constellation of low-earth satellites delivers home internet that has already disrupted rural broadband. Bundled with cellular, it means one plan that follows you from your living room to the middle of nowhere. The big carriers saw this threat coming. T-Mobile has been in a satellite partnership with Starlink, but that exclusivity window has expired, meaning SpaceX can now work with anyone. US Mobile was paying attention when everyone else was not. AT&T has bet $15.6 billion on a rival satellite company called AST SpaceMobile just to try to keep up. Verizon has no credible satellite answer at all and now a nine-year-old startup from New York is selling the whole package for under $50 a month.show more

SpaceX has introduced a new website for its next-generation... Starlink V3 satellites, along with new information about the satellite. • 1 Tbps downlink capacity (~10× higher than Starlink V2). • 160 Gbps uplink capacity (~22× higher than Starlink V2). • 2,048 downlink beams + 2,048 uplink beams (vs. 192 downlink/144 uplink beams on V2). • Upgraded phased array antennas enable the increased user capacity and beam count. • New SpaceX-designed beamformer chips power the phased arrays. • Modem chips handle ~64× more throughput per chip, allowing more efficient simultaneous service and real-time beam allocation based on demand. • Each satellite includes 6 high-capacity 400 Gbps laser links, enabling a redundant petabit-scale laser mesh network for global routing. • Each satellite also has 4 quad-band RF backhaul antennas operating across Ka, E, V, and W bands. • RF backhaul capacity increases to 1.2 Tbps (>8× Starlink V2). • Backhaul uplink supports 60 GHz of spectrum across frequencies and polarizations (4.3× more than V2). • New solar arrays generate ~2× the power of the V2 satellite arrays. • Solar arrays are manufactured using a continuous roll of solar blanket, cut into 19-meter sections, with 4 sections stitched together per array. • Solar arrays are optimized to reduce atmospheric drag in low Earth orbit. • A Starship launch carrying V3 satellites will deploy ~20× more network capacity than a Falcon 9 launch carrying V2 satellites. • V3 technology will support future Starlink Mobile Gen 2 satellites, delivering terrestrial-like LTE speeds directly to unmodified smartphones. Website:show more