Being a newer app, it may lack features of established competitors like Google Maps. Fewer users on Petal Maps can affect the accuracy of real-time updates and community features. While offering ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked SpaceX for launching the first FireSat satellite, part of a 50-satellite constellation designed to detect wildfires as small as 5x5 meters using AI. The launch ...

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Verizon Communications recently expanded its satellite texting capabilities, a significant advancement that allows users to text via satellite when outside cellular coverage. This move aligns with ...

To produce a global picture of the seafloor, researchers have relied on satellite data. More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring activities, including navigation ...

A collaboration between Google Research, the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance, Silicon Valley's Muon Space, and Intel's Moore Foundation, this satellite constellation aims to spot and track each ...

FireSat is a constellation of over 50 satellites developed by Google Research in collaboration with the Earth Fire Alliance, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, and Muon Space. The network will ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Elon Musk’s SpaceX for launching their first FireSat satellite over the weekend. FireSat is a satellite project by Google, built to detect and track wildfires ...

A Google-backed mission to detect wildfires from space launched a prototype satellite last week, which is now communicating with its developers on Earth. “The devastating wildfires in Los ...

According to Google, current satellite systems rely on low-resolution imagery and cover a particular area only once every 12 hours to spot significantly large wildfires spanning a couple of acres.

They are practicing tactics, techniques and procedures to do on-orbit space operations from one satellite to another.” A service spokesperson later elaborated on Guetlein’s comments ...

Eight European countries have filed a complaint with the United Nations (UN) over ongoing interference with satellite communication by Russia. Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, the ...