Steve Platnick Steps Down from NASA After 34 Years of Service

Dr. Steven “Steve” Platnick took the NASA agency Deferred Resignation Program (DRP). His last work day was August 8, 2025. Steve spent more than three decades at, or associated with, NASA. While he began his civil servant career at the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 2002, his Goddard association went back to 1993, […]

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NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun

NASA is turning up the heat in solar science with the launch of the Surya Heliophysics Foundational Model, an artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on 14 years of observations from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.  Developed by NASA in partnership with IBM and others, Surya uses advances in AI to analyze vast amounts of solar data, […]

The Intermodal Gateway of the Future: Hitachi Rail’s digital solution boosts rail freight in Germany

As part of a joint venture, Hitachi Rail has brought a new digital solution, ‘InGa-Z’, to market, which can transform efficiency at intermodal freight terminals. Protostellar GmbH, is the joint venture driving this solution and consists of Hitachi Rail, MT Logistics GmbH, DB Cargo AG, and with financial support from the Federal Ministry for Transport […]