Boeing has completed environmental tests on the first Global Positioning System Block IIF satellite that it is building for the Air Force, thereby confirming the mechanical integrity of the spacecraft, the company announced July 1. Members of Boeing’s industry team conducted a series of acoustic tests under Air Force supervision at Boeing’s facility in El Segundo, Calif., to replicate the noise levels to which the satellite will be exposed during its launch into orbit. Boeing said it is on track to deliver this first satellite to the Air Force this year for subsequent launch. Overall, it is building 12 Block IIF satellites.
Machine learning AI (AI/ML) is quite different from the generative AI large language models that have captured headlines and public imagination in the last two years, but it is vital to help human analysts sift through and make sense of the huge amount of data coming off of and about the…