Simona Riccardi

Apr 18, 2024 | cnbc.com | Morgan Brennan |Simona Riccardi

Kam Ghaffarian, co-founder and chairman of Axiom Space Inc., speaks during an interview at the company's headquarters in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. Go Nakamura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJeff Bezos wants to build permanent outposts on the moon and colonize space. Richard Branson wants to make spaceflight as commonplace as air travel. Elon Musk wants to settle Mars to make humanity multiplanetary. IBX's Kam Ghaffarian wants to go even further: the stars.

Apr 12, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Simona Riccardi |Kristin Merrilees

The zinefest was hosted by the Barnard Zine Library in partnership with Word Up Bookstore. The zinefest was hosted by the Barnard Zine Library in partnership with Word Up Bookstore. On the fourth floor of Barnard Hall from 12 to 6 p.m. this past Saturday, attendees of the NYC Feminist Zinefest stepped into a festival filled with artwork, poetry, and activism. Tablers came from across both Barnard and New York City.

Apr 10, 2024 | cnbc.com | Simona Riccardi |Morgan Brennan

A render of Sierra Space's Velocity satellite busAmid preparations for its spaceplane's maiden flight and an initial public offering as soon as next year, Sierra Space is expanding its satellite offerings.  Ahead of the much-anticipated solar eclipse, the commercial space unicorn unveiled its aptly named Eclipse line of satellite buses — the main structures of satellites — to serve a wide range of missions in orbits ranging for low Earth to cis-lunar.

Apr 5, 2024 | nbcchicago.com | Simona Riccardi |Morgan Brennan

• Spire Global — which offers information on weather and climate, ship and aircraft movements, and has a space services business — is hoping weather forecasting can become even more more accurate. • CEO Peter Platzer said radio frequency sensing company sees a huge potential for such improvements. • He also said a new partnership with Nvidia will inspire "more valuable products and new use cases."Artificial intelligence has been instrumental to weather forecast modeling for years.

Apr 5, 2024 | nbclosangeles.com | Simona Riccardi |Morgan Brennan

Spire Global — which offers information on weather and climate, ship and aircraft movements, and has a space services business — is hoping weather forecasting can become even more more accurate. CEO Peter Platzer said radio frequency sensing company sees a huge potential for such improvements. He also said a new partnership with Nvidia will inspire "more valuable products and new use cases."Artificial intelligence has been instrumental to weather forecast modeling for years.