Cognitive Space Enhances Missile Tracking with AI, NASA's X-59 Passes Electromagnetic Tests, and JWST Spots Most Distant Galaxy

Cognitive Space has secured contracts worth approximately $5 million with the Space Development Agency to refine missile tracking and mesh-network routing using artificial intelligence. The company will enhance automated sensor management for missile-tracking satellites and improve the resilience of space networks. NASA's X-59 supersonic research aircraft has successfully completed electromagnetic testing, ensuring its systems operate safely without interference. The tests, conducted at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, involved activating each system to detect potential interference. These tests are crucial for the Quesst mission, aiming to provide data that could lift bans on commercial supersonic flights over land. In 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant galaxy ever observed. New research published in Nature Astronomy further examines this galaxy, revealing it to be surprisingly bright and massive for its age. The galaxy's high metallicity suggests rapid star formation and metal enrichment in the early universe. The JWST's MIRI instrument detected the galaxy photometrically, providing insights into its composition and challenging existing models of early galaxy formation.