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Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies, developer and operator of microsatellites, announced Monday that it has been named an industrial affiliate of Stanford University’s Mineral-X program — a research organization combining expertise in geoscience, resource optimization, and artificial intelligence (AI) to enable a decarbonized mineral supply chain.

ExoSphere, Fleet Space’s space-enabled mineral exploration solution delivers 3D subsurface models in days, rather than months or years with other methods. Major miners including Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold, and Core Lithium have used the technology to complete hundreds of surveys on different commodity types across five continents.