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…