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 "entry": null,
 "name": "Loft Orbital's YAM-6",
 "group": "launched",
 "class": "compute",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "Loft Orbital",
 "developer": "Loft Orbital",
 "host": "YAM-6",
 "catalogue": {
  "number": 59126,
  "name": "YAM-6",
  "launched": "2024-03-04",
  "decayed": null,
  "match": "by name, the reviewer's judgement"
 },
 "dates": {
  "launched": "2024-03-04",
  "ran": null,
  "reported": "2025-01-14",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "processors and graphics processors, not named in what was read",
 "software": "customers' own software; none named",
 "did": "Flies as a satellite on which customers run their own software. The operator says it runs their missions daily; no AI workload is named in what was read.",
 "marks": [
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   "evidence": 3,
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   ]
  }
 ],
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   "text": "Launched YAM-6, the world's first satellite dedicated to running AI in space",
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   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "loft-series-c",
   "url": "https://loftorbital.com/announcing-lofts-170m-series-c/",
   "source_title": "Announcing Loft's $170M Series C",
   "publisher": "Loft Orbital",
   "source_kind": "blog",
   "published": "2025-01-14",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "read": "in part: two sentences of 9,700 characters"
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   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "Today, we are running virtual missions on YAM-6 every day for partners and customers such as Helsing, Microsoft, Agenium, NTT, and many others.",
   "speaker": "Loft Orbital",
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   "source": "loft-series-c",
   "url": "https://loftorbital.com/announcing-lofts-170m-series-c/",
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   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "Launching on Transporter-10, YAM-6 will abstract away the hardware by providing access to Loft-owned sensors and compute nodes that support AI.",
   "speaker": "Loft Orbital",
   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "loft-yam6",
   "url": "https://loftorbital.com/yam-6-the-rise-of-the-virtual-mission/",
   "source_title": "YAM-6: The Rise of the Virtual Mission",
   "publisher": "Loft Orbital",
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   "published": "2023-11-21",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
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   "id": "c4",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "We've developed software that lets our customers deploy their own AI models directly onboard our satellites.",
   "speaker": "Loft Orbital",
   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "loft-ai",
   "url": "https://loftorbital.com/inside-loft-orbital-building-smarter-satellites-with-ai/",
   "source_title": "Inside Loft Orbital: Building smarter satellites with AI",
   "publisher": "Loft Orbital",
   "source_kind": "blog",
   "published": "2025-06-30",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
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   "id": "c5",
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    "LAUNCH_DATE": "2024-03-04"
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 "notes": "Listed as launched, not as run, by a narrow reading: the operator says missions run on it every day and that customers can put AI models on its satellites, but names no model that has run on this one. Its sister satellite YAM-9 has a run on record under another entry.",
 "changed": "Added on 4 October 2026, in the second round of reading.",
 "headline": "L3"
}