Mistral AI joins consortium to bring AI satellite analytics on orbit
Mistral AI has joined a consortium led by Marlan Space and Loft Orbital to develop Altair-Next Gen, an AI-enabled satellite infrastructure that processes sensing data in orbit. The initial phase covers a 50-satellite constellation, with the first AI-enabled satellite set to launch in October 2026; NVIDIA, BlackSky and MaiaSpace are also partners.
- Initial phase covers a 50-satellite multi-sensor constellation
- First AI-enabled satellite is scheduled to launch in October 2026
- Onboard NVIDIA GPUs provide compute for real-time inference
- Mistral AI models to support reasoning and natural-language tasking
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