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- Q&A: Building a broadband constellation for a contested space era SpaceNews · 13 Apr 2026 As a wave of plans for low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellations enters the market, a 63-year-old former NASA Branch Chief and Google executive is betting on narrow beams, higher […]
- Vantor partners with Google AI to automate intelligence reports for government agencies SpaceNews · 18 Feb 2026 Satellite imagery-to-report timelines would be reduced from hours to minutes
- ReOrbit and Google Cloud develop orbital space cloud network SpaceDaily · 10 Feb 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 ReOrbit has launched Space Cloud, a multi year initiative to build a distributed network of software enabled satellites that can move and process data securely in orbit, in collaboration...
- Planet bets on orbital data centers in partnership with Google SpaceNews · 30 Dec 2025 Planet, a company best known for providing geospatial intelligence through its constellation of imaging satellites, sees a significant opportunity in developing orbital data centers for artificial intelligence.
- Space debris looms over Google's ambitious orbital AI data center plan SpaceDaily · 9 Dec 2025 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud services is driving an enormous appetite for computing power, and with it, a surge in electricity demand from data centers that can ri...
- Google’s new weather model impressed during its first hurricane season Ars Technica · 4 Nov 2025 Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.
- Google’s AI model just nailed the forecast for the strongest Atlantic storm this year Ars Technica · 26 Aug 2025 If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard.
- Logos nets $50 million to advance plans for more than 4,000 broadband satellites SpaceNews · 12 Jun 2025 Logos Space Services has raised $50 million to advance engineering plans for more than 4,000 broadband satellites, the startup founded by a former Google executive and NASA project manager announced June 12.
- Relativity names Eric Schmidt as CEO as it updates Terran R development SpaceNews · 10 Mar 2025 The former CEO of Google is taking a stake in, and becoming CEO of, Relativity Space as that launch vehicle company advances work on its Terran R rocket.
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the new leader of Relativity Space Ars Technica · 10 Mar 2025 "I think we’re seeing some tension on how we would optimize Terran R."
- Bowing to Trump, Google Maps plans to “quickly” rename the Gulf of Mexico Ars Technica · 28 Jan 2025 "We will update Google Maps in the US quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America."
- Aerospace Corp. and Google Public Sector join forces to advance space-weather forecasting SpaceNews · 28 Jan 2025 Aerospace Corp. and Google Public Sector will apply AI and high-performance computing to solar-activity forecasts.
- Ex-Google exec attracts financial backers for LEO megaconstellation SpaceNews · 8 Nov 2024 Logos Space has early financial commitments needed to deploy 1,000 satellites for global broadband coverage, according to the former Google executive behind the one-year-old megaconstellation startup.
- Sift raises $17.5M in Series A round SpaceNews · 25 Jun 2024 Southern California startup Sift raised $17.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Google Ventures.
- Daily Telescope: Looking up to brilliant skies Down Under Ars Technica · 23 Jan 2024 "It was taken using my mobile phone, a Google Pixel 7 Pro."
- Google and AT&T join $155 million AST SpaceMobile investment SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2024 Google and AT&T have joined a $155 million strategic investment in AST SpaceMobile, which is set to raise double that to help fund its direct-to-smartphone connectivity constellation.
- Google leads $36 million funding round for Pixxel SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2023 Hyperspectral imaging startup Pixxel raised $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Google.
- Rivada Space Networks selects Aalyria Spacetime SpaceNews · 13 Mar 2023 Aalyria, the company marketing technology developed by Google parent Alphabet, announced an agreement March 13 with Rivada Space Networks.
- Wireless communications startup repurposes technology from Google’s balloon internet project SpaceNews · 13 Sep 2022 Aalyri Technologies, a startup that emerged from stealth mode Sept. 13, plans to provide high-speed internet using software and networking technology from Google’s ill-fated balloon project.
- Starlink teams up with Google for ground infrastructure SpaceNews · 13 May 2021 SpaceX will install ground stations within Google’s data centers for its Starlink broadband satellites under a new cloud partnership.
- Elon Musk’s Starlink secures supply deal from Google’s cloud unit Teslarati · 13 May 2021 It appears that Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service has secured a formidable ally. In an announcement on Thursday, Google announced that...
- Google to shut down Loon SpaceNews · 21 Jan 2021 Google announced Jan. 21 it is shutting down Loon, a venture to provide wireless connectivity by balloon that has been seen as both complementary to and competitive with satellite networks.
- Rubin Observatory turns to Google Cloud for data hosting SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2020 Google announced a three-year agreement Dec. 7 with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) under construction in Chile to host data on the Google Cloud Platform.
- NOAA and Google to apply machine learning to satellite data SpaceNews · 27 Oct 2020
- C-Band Alliance plan will spawn lawsuits, Google, Charter warn SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2019
- Former Google Lunar X Prize Teams Still Working on Lunar Landers Space.com · 17 Nov 2018
- Former Google Lunar X Prize teams still working on lunar landers SpaceNews · 5 Nov 2018