A consortium led by UAE-based Marlan Space and US-French startup Loft Orbital has committed $1 billion to expand its AI-powered Altair Earth observation satellite constellation from 10 to 50 spacecraf…
Google's Gemma family of open-weight models surpassed 1 billion cumulative downloads on August 20, with 600 million downloads in under five months since Gemma 4 launched in April 2026. The Gemmaverse …
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully demonstrated the first in-orbit use of a vision-language model, Google's Gemma 3, aboard Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite. The NAVI-Orbital system achie…
For the first time, a satellite has identified and described features in its image scans without needing to check back with ground control. The YAM-9 satellite uses a NASA-built program called NAVI-Or…
Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite became the first to run a vision-language model in orbit, enabling real-time classification of Earth imagery from plain-English queries. The satellite uses NASA JPL's NA…
For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has used a vision-language model in orbit to autonomously identify areas of interest from natural language queries, without human analysts. The miles…