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- 2026-09-11 partnership Loft Orbital and Marlan Space announced a $1 billion program to expand their AI-equipped satellite constellation, with Mistral providing AI models. source
- 2026-06-23 research_milestone Loft Orbital and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory began testing AI models on spacecraft for Earth observation as part of the Federated Autonomous Measurement project. source
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Loft Orbital, Marlan Space plan $1B AI satellite expansion with Mistral
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space are launching a $1 billion initiative to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation to 50 satellites. Mistral will supply the AI models for these satellites. This expansion plan was off…
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UAE to build France's AI satellites in $1B space project
The United Arab Emirates will construct the initial satellites for France's AI-driven space initiative, Altair-Next Gen. This endeavor is spearheaded by a consortium including Marlan Space and Loft Orbital, backed by a …
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NASA sends Google's Gemma 3 LLM to space for satellite image analysis
NASA has successfully demonstrated the use of Google's Gemma 3 large language model aboard a satellite, marking the first in-orbit analysis of satellite imagery by an LLM. The NAVI-Orbital system, running a compressed v…
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Loft Orbital and NASA JPL test AI on spacecraft for Earth observation
Loft Orbital is collaborating with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a project called Federated Autonomous Measurement (FAME) to test artificial intelligence models on spacecraft for Earth observation. The initiative …
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Google's Gemma 3 model runs on satellite for onboard AI inference
Loft Orbital has deployed Google's Gemma 3 vision-language model on its YAM-9 satellite, marking the first time such a model has been used for onboard inference in orbit. This allows the satellite to process visual data…
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Satellite autonomously finds target using AI for first time
An Earth observation satellite has successfully identified a target autonomously, a first for space missions. This was achieved by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Loft Orbital, utilizing Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 m…
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AI-powered satellite autonomously identifies objects in orbit
For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has autonomously identified objects of interest using a vision-language model (VLM) in orbit. This milestone, achieved in April using Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 VLM onbo…
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Loft Orbital shifts to 'constellations as a service' with AI focus
Loft Orbital is shifting its business model from shared satellite payloads to offering "constellations as a service," focusing on dedicated satellites for governments and private firms. This new approach caters to entit…