Google's involvement in the space industry primarily revolves around its Google Public Sector division, which collaborates with organizations like The Aerospace Corporation and NASA, providing cutting-edge AI and machine learning tools, cloud computing services (like Vertex AI), and high-performance computing to advance space-related projects, including space weather forecasting and air quality monitoring. Google's technologies are also used in research projects related to aeronautics. Key partners include NASA, The Aerospace Corporation, and the U.S. Space Force.
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Most of the strategic investment announced 2025-01-18, totaling $110 million, is in the form of a debt instrument that pays interest to Google, AT&T, and Vodafone and could later be converted into shares in AST SpaceMobile.
Google and AT&T joined a $155,000,000 strategic investment in AST SpaceMobile.
Satelligence processes 40 years of satellite data across 6 billion hectares in a matter of days using Google Cloud resources.
Scanifly added Nearmap’s aerial data coverage and imagery from satellite providers Google Maps, Bing, and Mapbox to enhance preliminary designs.
One of the largest telecommunications providers processed 90 billion spatial object records using Kinetica to turn Google-provided lat/longs into atomic routes for coverage planning and ROI projections for network and retail build-out.
Intelsat invested in Aalyria, a Google spin-off that is developing optical communications technology.
Google.org is establishing a $20,000,000 Digital Futures Fund to provide grants to leading think tanks and academic institutions around the world.
Integrating generative AI into SAP software and Google Cloud’s open data cloud enables customers to deploy solutions that use information from SAP Datasphere and virtually any other data source to improve business insights, analysis, and decision-making.
SAP and Google Cloud expanded their partnership at Google Cloud Next to help enterprises harness data and generative AI.
Garmin and Google are discussing using Google Messages for satellite-based emergency SOS connections.
Isa Notermans began her career working on people practices at Google Australia and in the United States, leading teams focused on early career hiring and advancement programs and championing Diversity & Belonging initiatives.
Google's Android phones may be activated on Garmin's systems to assist with emergency SOS needs in over 150 countries.
Garmin is rumored to be planning to expand their satellite-based SOS telephony market in collaboration with Google.
Aalyria emerged from stealth in late 2022 after acquiring the technological underpinnings of Tightbeam and Spacetime from Google.
Wherobots provides a Cloud-Integrated Geospatial Pipeline that deploys geospatial data programs with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and supports user-configurable automatic scheduling.
Pixxel raised $36,000,000 in a Series B funding round that included new investor Google and existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume Ventures, growX, Sparta, and Athera.
Pixxel raised $36,000,000 in a Series B funding round that included new investor Google and existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume Ventures, GrowX, Sparta, and Athera.
Pixxel raised $36,000,000 in a Series B funding round led by Google on 2023-06-01.
In 2014, Google paid an estimated $500,000,000 to acquire Skybox Imaging.
Google for India Digitalisation Fund was established in 2020 and set aside about $10,000,000,000 to invest in Indian companies addressing digital transformation and AI applications in health, education, and agriculture.