Loft Orbital puts Altair's first satellite into a 50-satellite AI network

Altair-1 launched on October 1st with NVIDIA processors and Mistral models onboard, beginning a $1 billion program led by Loft Orbital and Marlan Space.

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Altair puts Loft Orbital's standardized-satellite strategy behind a 50-spacecraft program: onboard processing could sell customers faster intelligence instead of raw imagery, while the $1 billion consortium anchors manufacturing in Abu Dhabi.

Loft Orbital puts Altair's first satellite into a 50-satellite AI network — Altair-1 launched on October 1st with NVIDIA processors and Mistral models onboard, beginning a $1 billion program led by Loft Orbital and Marlan Space.

Loft Orbital put the first satellite in its planned 50-spacecraft Altair AI network into orbit on October 1st, starting a program designed to analyze Earth-observation data in space and send users alerts instead of waiting for imagery to reach ground-based processors. The spacecraft, Altair-1, is now in commissioning, according to Orbitworks' launch announcement.…

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