UAE Launches First Commercial AI-Enabled Earth Observation Satellite

Altair-1, the first commercial satellite built in the UAE and integrated by Loft Orbital, launched aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX at 11:32 a.m., PT / GST from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Altair-1 successfully deployed and acquired a signal, the satellite is nominal is now in commissioning Altair-1 marks the launch of the Altair constellation: ten satellites forming the UAE’s first commercial, AI-enabled Earth observation network.