Satlyt raises $8 million to run AI on satellites

TechCrunch reports Satlyt raised an $8 million seed round and has flown its software on two demonstration missions. It deployed Google DeepMind’s Gemma model on a Momentus spacecraft; Google DeepMind says the model reduced diagnostic payloads by more than 60% in two fault-injection test scenarios. The startup expects to attempt a shared computing system spanning two satellites in 2027.