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  • A metallic high-tech sensor on a pedestal in front of a countdown clock.

    Fleet Space closes $100M Series D funding

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Dec 11, 2024

    Global investors and mining companies alike are excited about company's tech for mineral exploration on Earth and in space. There are certain moments when a step-change technology is perfectly timed to fill a need that is urgent and growing. Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies' satellite-enabled and AI-enhanced ExoSphere platform for discovering minerals critical to the energy transition is one of those technologies. "As we continue to strive for a net-zero future, the...

  • Graphic of satellite collecting and transmitting mineral exploration data.

    Gravity of space-based mineral exploration

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Nov 5, 2024

    Fleet Space adds gravity surveys to ExoSphere, providing mining clients with an even more powerful mineral exploration solution. The satellite-enabled and AI-enhanced ExoSphere mineral exploration solution has already attracted the attention of Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold, and other global mining companies that are using this subsurface imaging technology to discover buried deposits of cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and other critical metals. Fleet Space Technologies, the...

  • A trail exposes white salts under red rocks at a South American lithium project.

    Rio Tinto explores for lithium from space

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Nov 1, 2024

    Joins a growing number of mining companies leveraging Fleet Space's satellite-enabled and AI-powered mineral exploration technology. Toward its longstanding commitment to finding a better way to provide the minerals and metals the world needs, Rio Tinto is leveraging Fleet Space Technologies' satellite-enabled ExoSphere mineral exploration solution to gain greater insights into what lies below the surface at its Rincon lithium mine project in Argentina. "Rio Tinto and Fleet...

  • Computer graphic of a LEO satellite collecting and transmitting geological data.

    The path to mineral exploration innovation

    Flavia Tata Nadini, Fleet Space Technologies|Updated Oct 19, 2024

    Satellite connectivity, quality 3D multiphysics data, and AI offer faster decision-making at every stage of the exploration journey. Technological innovation is the cornerstone of human progress. At their best, the foundational technologies of the modern world – such as the global internet, digital technologies, space travel, clean energy, and AI – fill me with the belief that hard problems are not permanent fixtures in time and space. They are mutable barriers humanity must o...

  • A white electronic device on a rocky and treeless high desert landscape.

    Gold Fields deploys ExoSphere in Chile

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Oct 11, 2024

    Sees satellite-enabled mineral exploration tech as an ideal solution for its gold-silver-silver copper mine in the Andes Mountains of Northern Chile. As part of its ongoing commitment to leveraging new technologies that maximize productivity and minimize its environmental footprint in some of the harshest conditions on Earth, Gold Fields has deployed Fleet Space Technologies' ExoSphere mineral exploration solution to expand upon its reserves of gold, silver, and copper at the...

  • Graphic of a satellite scanning Geodes with 3D geological model inset.

    A deeper understanding of Chilean copper

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Aug 23, 2024

    Power Nickel leverages Fleet Space's AI-powered ExoSphere mineral exploration tech to scan projects along Chile's Atacama Fault System. From Barrick Gold's Reko Diq mine project in Pakistan to Inflection Resources' Macquarie Arc land package in Australia and Eagle Mountain Mining's Silver Mountain property in Arizona, Fleet Space Technologies' ExoSphere mineral exploration technology has emerged as an increasingly important tool to efficiently and sustainably discover new...

  • Close-up of a Fleet Space Geode planted in red-colored soil.

    ExoSphere scans for more Arizona copper

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Aug 16, 2024

    Eagle Mountain leverages Fleet Space's AI-enhanced and satellite-enabled ExoSphere technology to discover copper deposits below Silver Mountain. In the two years since Fleet Space Technologies launched ExoSphere, this satellite-enabled mineral exploration technology has rocketed up the list of solutions for discovering the minerals critical to the energy transition – especially copper. The list of companies deploying ExoSphere ranges from junior mineral exploration companies l...

  • A pickup offers scale for a vast expanse of desert and mountains in Pakistan.

    Exploring Reko Diq with Fleet Space tech

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 9, 2024

    Barrick Gold leverages satellite-enabled AI mineral exploration technology to explore the larger copper potential at Pakistani project. Barrick Gold Corp. is the latest in a growing number of mining companies to use space tech and AI mineral exploration solutions developed by Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies to discover hidden deposits of minerals needed for the clean energy transition. While Barrick is best known for being one of the world's largest producers of...

  • A worker walks through tall, dry grass carrying an electronic device.

    Spacetech & AI aid Aussie copper search

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Inflection Resources leverages Fleet Space's ExoSphere to survey enormous land package. To help discover large deposits of copper that will help meet growing demands of the global energy transition, Inflection Resources Ltd. is leveraging the space tech and AI mineral exploration solutions provided by Fleet Space Technologies to scan for potential targets hidden undercover across an enormous copper-prospective land package in New South Wales, Australia. Under an up to $96...

  • SpaceX Bandwagon-1 Mission launch at T-plus-two-seconds with telemetry.

    Fleet Space mineral exploration rockets

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Apr 16, 2024

    Centauri-6 delivers upgrades and optimizations to constellation of satellites that enable Fleet Space's ExoSphere mineral exploration tech. The payload of SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 7 included a next-generation Centauri-6 satellite that will upgrade and expand upon Fleet Space Technologies' constellation of low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites that are playing a vital role in exploring Earth for the minerals needed for the clean...

  • Image of a Fleet Space nanosatellite over Earth.

    Space-based mineral exploration upgrade

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Mar 13, 2024

    New machine learning enhancements make ExoSphere faster and more powerful than ever; Fleet Space joins Stanford's Mineral-X program Already a powerful tool that is being leveraged by global mining companies such as Rio Tinto and Barrick Gold Corp. to discover mineral deposits hidden below the earth's surface, Fleet Space Technologies' satellite-enabled ExoSphere is now more powerful and faster than ever thanks to the introduction of machine learning. First introduced in 2022,...

  • Computer-generated rendering of Geodes transmitting data to a satellite.

    Fleet Space ups exploration commitment

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Sep 12, 2023

    Space Age mineral exploration firm invests in mining company using its cutting-edge tech. Going above and beyond its already well-established commitment to employing space-based mineral exploration technology to accelerate the discovery and delineation of minerals critical to life here on Earth, Fleet Space Technologies is investing in Thor Energy. "This partnership between Thor Energy and Fleet Space Technologies is further testament to what is possible when we fuse world-cla...

  • Fleet Space Technologies' cofounders standing with 100 employees.

    Fleet Space Technologies doubles valuation

    K. Warner, For Metal Tech News|Updated Sep 4, 2023

    Fleet Space Technologies has just completed its third fundraising round (Series C), more than doubling the company's valuation to over A$350 million (US$228 million). This financial achievement is a reflection of the company's innovative ExoSphere technology, which utilizes a constellation of low-earth-orbit nanosatellites for rapid 3D subsurface imaging that will help mining companies locate valuable minerals and metals. When combined with artificial intelligence and machine...

  • A row of square S-band antenna (RF) patches created on a metal 3D printer.

    Metal 3D printing Fleet Space satellites

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Sep 27, 2022

    Australian tech company brings satellite printing in-house Fleet Space Technologies has taken another large step on its path to leveraging the unique abilities of metal 3D printers to manufacture a constellation of 288 low-Earth-orbit satellites that can deliver secure planet-wide coverage for millions of industrial internet of things devices. This new phase for the Australian satellite technologies company is the installation of a new 3D Systems DMP Flex 350 metal 3D...

  • Fleet Space Centauri satellite used for mineral exploration in low-Earth orbit.

    Discovering US nickel with space tech

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Sep 27, 2022

    To speed the discovery of nickel needed in enormous quantities for the lithium-ion batteries powering the electric vehicle revolution, Talon Metals Corp. is piloting Fleet Space Technologies' ExoSphere satellite-enabled geophysics system. Fleet's ExoSphere system utilizes a combination of lightweight earthbound geophones, edge computing, and a constellation of low-earth-orbit nanosatellites to quickly and efficiently scan the Earth for potential mineral deposits buried...

  • Fleet Space Technologies’ Centauri 4 low earth orbit satellite above Earth.

    Space-borne mineral exploration is here

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Aug 12, 2022

    Fleet Space launches avant-garde satellite geophysics tech As many space exploration companies begin to investigate the vast mineral potential of asteroids, moons, and planets within our solar system, Fleet Space Technologies is leveraging the vantage of space to explore Earth for the $13 trillion worth of minerals and metals that are estimated to be needed over the next two decades to build the clean energy future. To accomplish this, Fleet's ExoSphere system utilizes a...