Models that interpret what a sensor takes in: images, spectra, signals.
| Marks | Record | Class | Launched | Run reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L3 R1 | Planet's Pelican-4: object detection on boardTook an image of an airport from orbit and ran a model on board to find the aeroplanes in it. | perception | 26 Aug 2025 | 7 Apr 2026 |
| L1 R1 | Three-Body Computing ConstellationSurveyed infrastructure from orbit over an area in north-west China, and classified gamma-ray bursts on two satellites. | perception | May 2025 | 13 Feb 2026 |
| L2 R2 | Prithvi on the IMAGIN-e payload, International Space StationRan inference on a prepared test set in orbit, under command from the ground, and returned outputs matching those obtained on Earth. | perception | 21 Mar 2024 | 1 Dec 2025 |
| L3 R2 | Φ-sat-2Produced the outputs of its AI applications on board during commissioning, for comparison with results obtained on the ground. | perception | 16 Aug 2024 | 11 Aug 2025 |
| L1 R1 | Dynamic Targeting on CogniSAT-6Looked ahead along its orbit, told cloud from clear sky and decided where to point its instrument, with no human involved. | perception | Mar 2024 | 24 Jul 2025 |
| U1 | Adaptive sampling on Perseverance's PIXL instrumentRead the instrument's scans of a rock as they came in and decided, on Mars, where to look longer. | perception | not applicable | 16 Jul 2024 |
| L3 R1 | Intuition-1Processed its own hyperspectral images on board and filtered out the cloud-covered ones before sending data down. | perception | 11 Nov 2023 | in an undated source |
| L3 R2 | WorldFloods on D-Orbit's Wild Ride missionProduced flood maps on board from images, and was updated from the ground after launch to suit the satellite's own camera. | perception | 30 Jun 2021 | 27 Jun 2023 |
| L3 | MoonNet on ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 1Was carried to lunar orbit to classify a rover's images of the surface. Its maker says it was deployed there; no output is reported in what was read. | perception | 11 Dec 2022 | none |
| L3 R2 | AWS machine learning software on D-Orbit's ION SCV-004Ran inference on Earth observation data in orbit, and had its model settings changed in flight. | perception | 13 Jan 2022 | 29 Nov 2022 |
| R2 | Neural networks benchmarked on phone-class chips aboard the International Space StationRan deep learning inference on two commercial processors aboard the station, to measure how they perform there. | perception | not applicable | 2022 |
| L1 R2 | Φ-sat-1, flown on FSSCatDetected clouds in hyperspectral images on board, so that cloudy data need not be sent down. | perception | Sep 2020 | 4 Nov 2021 |
| U1 | AEGIS on the Mars rovers Opportunity, Curiosity and PerseveranceFinds rocks in the rover's camera images, ranks them against the scientists' priorities and points an instrument at the best, with nobody on Earth in the loop. | perception | not applicable | 21 Jul 2016 |
| L3 R1 | IPEX, the Intelligent Payload ExperimentClassified its own images on board and picked out the regions worth sending down. | perception | 6 Dec 2013 | in an undated source |
Other classes: classical, compute, language, learning, planning. How a claim is graded.