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Slingshot Aerospace Nabs AFWERX Award To Apply AI Tool For Space Domain Awareness

Slingshot Aerospace Nabs AFWERX Award To Apply AI Tool For Space Domain Awareness
Tim Solms is the CEO of Slingshot Aerospace. (Photo: Slingshot Aerospace)

The Air Force’s innovation arm has awarded Slingshot Aerospace a small award to further develop an artificial intelligence capability that rapidly analyzes data about spacecraft in low Earth orbit to check for nefarious activity and safeguard assets, the company said on Tuesday. Under the Rapid Analysis of Photometric Tracks for space Object Identification and behavior Recognition (RAPTOR) program, Slingshot is leveraging its own global network of land-based optical sensors and related analytics that capture unique digital fingerprints of each spacecraft…

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