Who claims it, in their own words, and what else was read.
“For the first time, we demonstrate a successful update of the ML model to adapt it to this camera after the satellite was launched.”
Mateo-Garcia et al., the experiment's team: the experimenter. Published 27 Jun 2023. WorldFloods on D-Orbit's Wild Ride mission
Contested. Another source, read here, reports something that may be earlier or the same. Which is right turns on a definition or on a fact not stated.
OPS-SAT's team reported models trained on board in April 2021. Whether training a model in orbit and replacing one from the ground are the same first is a matter of definition, and the dates of the update are not in the parts read.
“To our knowledge, this is the first time an artificial intelligence model is trained onboard a flying mission.”
Georges Labrèche, experimenter: the experimenter. Published 19 Apr 2021. OPS-SAT: models trained and run on board