Google's Gemma 3 Runs in Orbit Aboard YAM-9 — AI Now Analyzes Earth From Space
Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite ran Google's Gemma 3 vision-language model directly in orbit, analyzing Earth imagery in real time without downlinking raw pixels. It marks the first publicly confirmed execution of a VLM in space.
- Gemma
- SpaceAI
- EdgeAI
- LoftOrbital
- satellite