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…
On April 16, 2026, NAVI-Orbital became the first system to demonstrate a zero-shot vision-language model performing autonomous multi-modal inference entirely onboard a Low Earth Orbit spacecraft. The …