{
 "id": "navi-orbital",
 "entry": 13,
 "name": "NAVI-Orbital on YAM-9",
 "group": "ran",
 "class": "language",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "Loft Orbital (the satellite)",
 "developer": "The paper's author",
 "host": "YAM-9",
 "catalogue": {
  "number": 66694,
  "name": "YAM-9",
  "launched": "2025-11-28",
  "decayed": null,
  "match": "by name, the reviewer's judgement"
 },
 "dates": {
  "launched": "2025-11-28",
  "ran": "2026-04-16",
  "reported": "2026-06-05",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "\"a heterogeneous compute cluster\"; the flight processor is not named",
 "software": "Gemma 3 4B, a vision-language model",
 "did": "Classified the scenes the satellite captured, described them in text and answered an operator's follow-up questions, all on board.",
 "marks": [
  {
   "stage": "L",
   "evidence": 3,
   "basis": [
    "c4"
   ]
  },
  {
   "stage": "R",
   "evidence": 2,
   "basis": [
    "c1",
    "c2",
    "c3"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "c1",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "On April 16, 2026, NAVI-Orbital achieved what is, to the authors' knowledge, the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model performing autonomous multi-modal inference entirely onboard.",
   "speaker": "The paper's author",
   "relation": "experimenter",
   "source": "arxiv-navi-abs",
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18271",
   "source_title": "NAVI-Orbital: First In-Orbit Demonstration of a Zero-Shot Vision-Language Model for Autonomous Earth Observation",
   "publisher": "arXiv (preprint by the system's authors)",
   "source_kind": "preprint",
   "published": "2026-06-05",
   "published_basis": "submission date on the page",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "abstract page in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite, a multi-mission platform flying a heterogeneous compute cluster",
   "speaker": "The paper's author",
   "relation": "experimenter",
   "source": "arxiv-navi-html",
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18271v1",
   "source_title": "NAVI-Orbital: First In-Orbit Demonstration of a Zero-Shot Vision-Language Model for Autonomous Earth Observation (full text)",
   "publisher": "arXiv (preprint by the system's authors)",
   "source_kind": "preprint",
   "published": "2026-06-05",
   "published_basis": "submission date on the abstract page",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in part: about 15 excerpts of 74,500 characters"
  },
  {
   "id": "c3",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "Gemma 3 4B",
   "speaker": "The paper's author",
   "relation": "experimenter",
   "source": "arxiv-navi-html",
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18271v1",
   "source_title": "NAVI-Orbital: First In-Orbit Demonstration of a Zero-Shot Vision-Language Model for Autonomous Earth Observation (full text)",
   "publisher": "arXiv (preprint by the system's authors)",
   "source_kind": "preprint",
   "published": "2026-06-05",
   "published_basis": "submission date on the abstract page",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in part: about 15 excerpts of 74,500 characters"
  },
  {
   "id": "c4",
   "kind": "data",
   "fields": {
    "OBJECT_NAME": "YAM-9",
    "LAUNCH_DATE": "2025-11-28"
   },
   "speaker": "CelesTrak satellite catalogue",
   "relation": "catalogue",
   "source": "celestrak-66694",
   "url": "https://celestrak.org/satcat/records.php?CATNR=66694&FORMAT=json",
   "source_title": "Satellite catalogue record 66694",
   "publisher": "CelesTrak",
   "source_kind": "catalogue",
   "published": "undated",
   "published_basis": "a live catalogue record; the access date is the date that matters",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "json",
   "read": "in full"
  }
 ],
 "conflicts": [],
 "notes": "A preprint, not peer reviewed as far as its page shows. The accuracy it reports (88.16%) is for a benchmark on the ground; no in-orbit accuracy was found in the parts read.",
 "changed": "Launch of the host satellite confirmed from the catalogue.",
 "headline": "L3 R2"
}