{
 "id": "dynamic-targeting",
 "entry": 10,
 "name": "Dynamic Targeting on CogniSAT-6",
 "group": "ran",
 "class": "perception",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "Open Cosmos (the satellite)",
 "developer": "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the software); Ubotica (the payload)",
 "host": "CogniSAT-6",
 "catalogue": null,
 "dates": {
  "launched": "2024-03",
  "ran": "mid-July 2025",
  "reported": "2025-07-24",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "\"a commercially available AI processor\", not named",
 "software": "An algorithm trained to identify clouds, with planning software",
 "did": "Looked ahead along its orbit, told cloud from clear sky and decided where to point its instrument, with no human involved.",
 "marks": [
  {
   "stage": "L",
   "evidence": 1,
   "basis": [
    "c4"
   ]
  },
  {
   "stage": "R",
   "evidence": 1,
   "basis": [
    "c1",
    "c2"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "c1",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "The technology enabled an Earth-observing satellite for the first time to look ahead along its orbital path, rapidly process and analyze imagery with onboard AI, and determine where to point an instrument.",
   "speaker": "NASA JPL",
   "relation": "developer",
   "source": "jpl-dynamic-targeting",
   "url": "https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nasa-is-testing-ai-to-make-earth-observing-satellites-smarter/",
   "source_title": "How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter",
   "publisher": "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2025-07-24",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "The first of a series of flight tests occurred aboard a commercial satellite in mid-July.",
   "speaker": "NASA JPL",
   "relation": "developer",
   "source": "jpl-dynamic-targeting",
   "url": "https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nasa-is-testing-ai-to-make-earth-observing-satellites-smarter/",
   "source_title": "How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter",
   "publisher": "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2025-07-24",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c3",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "hosts a payload designed and developed by Ubotica featuring a commercially available AI processor",
   "speaker": "NASA JPL",
   "relation": "developer",
   "source": "jpl-dynamic-targeting",
   "url": "https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nasa-is-testing-ai-to-make-earth-observing-satellites-smarter/",
   "source_title": "How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter",
   "publisher": "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2025-07-24",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c4",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "CogniSAT-6, a briefcase-size CubeSat that launched in March 2024",
   "speaker": "NASA JPL",
   "relation": "developer",
   "source": "jpl-dynamic-targeting",
   "url": "https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nasa-is-testing-ai-to-make-earth-observing-satellites-smarter/",
   "source_title": "How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter",
   "publisher": "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2025-07-24",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  }
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 "conflicts": [],
 "notes": "The statement comes from the maker of the software, about a flight on another company's satellite. Neither Open Cosmos nor Ubotica was read. No catalogue object was found under the name tried.",
 "changed": null,
 "headline": "L1 R1"
}