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NAVI-Orbital Debuts Onboard Vision-Language Inference
On April 16, 2026, NAVI-Orbital performed the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model for autonomous Earth observation. The system uses Gemma 3 to classify scenes and generate text descriptions entirely on a LEO spacecraft. This eliminates downlink bottlenecks by processing data at the source. Practitioners can now execute natural-language dialogue with orbiting assets.