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Firefly suffers anomaly during launch vehicle test

Firefly Aerospace says it had an “anomaly” during a Jan. 22 static-fire test of the first stage of its Alpha rocket under development, an incident that prompted evacuations and road closures in the vicinity in the test site.
SpaceNews.com

                        Updated 4:45 p.m. Eastern with Firefly statement.
WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace says it had an “anomaly” during a Jan. 22 static-fire test of the first stage of its Alpha rocket under development, an incident that prompted evacuations and road closures in the vicinity in the test site.
The Burnet County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted to its Facebook account that it was informed of a “possible explosion” at 7:24 p.m. Eastern at the company’s test site near the town of Briggs, north of Austin. Authorities closed roads in the vicinity of the site and started evacuations of those living within one mile (1.6 kilometers) of the site. Roads were r...

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Descartes Labs unveils data refinery, modeling platform

Descartes Labs unveiled Jan. 22 a cloud-based platform for commercial customers that pairs geospatial datasets with modeling tools and applications.
SpaceNews.com

                        SAN FRANCISCO – Descartes Labs unveiled Jan. 22 a cloud-based platform for commercial customers that pairs geospatial datasets with modeling tools and applications.
Many companies don’t employ computational software, remote sensing and machine learning experts. The Descartes Labs Platform offers analysts within those companies the tools necessary to draw relevant information from geospatial datasets, Sam Skillman, Descartes head of engineering, told SpaceNews.
The Descartes Labs Platform could, for example, help customers identify all the areas on Earth with similar geophysical or geological properties.
“It supercharges how you think about visualizing and inspecting data in a high-dimensional space,” Skillman said. “This is not red...