Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite

Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite

BrianFagioli writes: Artificial intelligence has now run directly on a satellite in orbit. A spacecraft about 500km above Earth captured an image of an airport and then immediately ran an onboard AI model to detect airplanes in the photo. Instead of acting like a simple camera in space that sends ra...

Planet Labs achieves breakthrough with AI-powered satellite detecting objects directly in orbit in near real time

The demonstration took place on March 25 at an altitude of 500 kilometers over Alice Springs, Australia. The satellite captured an image of an airport and used an onboard NVIDIA Jetson Orin module to detect aircraft within moments. The company said this represents one of the first instances of onboard AI inference on an Earth observation satellite. The capability moves beyond traditional data collection toward in-orbit analysis. “This success is…