Shown (left to right) Theresa Condor, Spire chief operating officer, Ewan Reid, Mission Control founder and CEO, and Lisa Campbell, Canadian Space Agency president at the 2024 International Astronautical Congress in Milan.

MILAN – Spire Global and Canadian startup Mission Control announced plans Oct. 16 for Persistence, a technology demonstration mission focused on space-based artificial intelligence. “The Persistence mission will demonstrate resilient onboard spacecraft autonomy over a yearlong demonstration of deep learning AI in space,” Ewan Reid, Mission Control founder and CEO, said at the International Astronautical […]

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