Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite

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By BeauHDApr 8, 2026, 3:00 am281 ptsTop
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 raw data back…

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