satellite AI

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ran a 4-bit quantized version of Google's Gemma 3 4B on board a Loft Orbital YAM-9 satellite, marking the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model analyzing imagery from a satellite's own sensor. The unmodified open-weights model hit 88 percent accuracy on a 7,960-image benchmark and ran live capture tests over Toulouse, France and coastal Argentina.