NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit
What YAM-9 proved with NASA JPL: you can put a VLM in orbit and task it with a prompt instead of a rewrite. Onboard our satellite, Google's Gemma 3 read its own imagery and returned plain-language answers. That's the…
Why this matters for talent
Loft Orbital's YAM-9 mission demonstrated that a vision-language model can run onboard a satellite and process imagery with plain-language prompts, no ground-side rewrite required. That signals a growing need for ML/AI engineers and systems integrators who understand both edge inference constraints and space hardware. Loft Orbital currently has open roles on the jobs board, and this kind of mission milestone usually precedes a hiring push for the teams that will productize the capability.
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