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 "name": "Φ-sat-2",
 "group": "ran",
 "class": "perception",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "European Space Agency",
 "developer": "The Φ-sat-2 mission team",
 "host": "Φ-sat-2",
 "catalogue": {
  "number": 60470,
  "name": "PHISAT 2",
  "launched": "2024-08-16",
  "decayed": null,
  "match": "by name, the reviewer's judgement"
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 "dates": {
  "launched": "2024-08-16",
  "ran": "during commissioning, after August 2024",
  "reported": "2025-08-11",
  "ended": null
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 "hardware": "an \"AI accelerator\", not named in the abstract; ESA's earlier page planned an Intel Movidius Myriad 2",
 "software": "Six AI applications: deep compression, and detection of clouds, streets, vessels, fires and marine anomalies",
 "did": "Produced the outputs of its AI applications on board during commissioning, for comparison with results obtained on the ground.",
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   "text": "Launched on August 16, 2024, aboard the SpaceX Transporter 11 rideshare flight",
   "speaker": "Melega et al., the mission team",
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   "source": "smallsat-phisat2",
   "url": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2025/E-S1-2025/3/",
   "source_title": "In-Orbit Commissioning Results of the ESA Φsat-2 Mission",
   "publisher": "Small Satellite Conference 2025 (Melega and seven co-authors, the mission team)",
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   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "read": "in part: about 2,600 of the abstract's 7,100 characters"
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   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "fine-tune six onboard AI applications, which include deep compression, cloud detection, street detection, vessel detection, fire detection, and marine anomalies detection",
   "speaker": "Melega et al., the mission team",
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   "url": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2025/E-S1-2025/3/",
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   "id": "c3",
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   "text": "compare the abilities of the AI applications to match the results obtained with synthetic data",
   "speaker": "Melega et al., the mission team",
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   "url": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2025/E-S1-2025/3/",
   "source_title": "In-Orbit Commissioning Results of the ESA Φsat-2 Mission",
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   "id": "c4",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "among the first to implement a complete data processing chain onboard",
   "speaker": "Melega et al., the mission team",
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   "url": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2025/E-S1-2025/3/",
   "source_title": "In-Orbit Commissioning Results of the ESA Φsat-2 Mission",
   "publisher": "Small Satellite Conference 2025 (Melega and seven co-authors, the mission team)",
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    "LAUNCH_DATE": "2024-08-16"
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   "speaker": "CelesTrak satellite catalogue",
   "relation": "catalogue",
   "source": "celestrak-60470",
   "url": "https://celestrak.org/satcat/records.php?CATNR=60470&FORMAT=json",
   "source_title": "Satellite catalogue record 60470",
   "publisher": "CelesTrak",
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   "published_basis": "a live catalogue record; the access date is the date that matters",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "read": "in full"
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   "id": "c6",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "The payload will include the AI processor Intel Movidius Myriad 2",
   "speaker": "ESA Φ-lab",
   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "esa-philab-phisats",
   "url": "https://philab.esa.int/flagship-programmes/phi-sats-programme/",
   "source_title": "Φ-sats programme",
   "publisher": "ESA Φ-lab",
   "source_kind": "project-page",
   "published": "undated",
   "published_basis": "no date in the text; written before Φ-sat-2 was contracted",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in part: four excerpts of 3,100 characters"
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 "conflicts": [
  {
   "summary": "The launch date. An ESA-run directory, eoPortal, gives 16 June 2024 in two places and August 2024 in a third. The mission team's paper and the catalogue both give 16 August 2024.",
   "status": "resolved: 16 August 2024"
  }
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 "notes": "The abstract reports that outputs were acquired and compared. It gives no accuracy for the applications in orbit.",
 "changed": "Launch confirmed from the catalogue.",
 "headline": "L3 R2"
}