The register

First model updated on a satellite after launch

Who claims it, in their own words, and what else was read.

Claimed for by June 2023

  1. “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.

Set against

  1. “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

What a status means

Every first claimed