A reproducible starting point.
Historical radar-scene processing and bounded CPU/GPU model-execution experiments provide a starting point for representative customer tests.
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Evidence for
the first mission.
The current program builds on ground experiments in data processing and model execution. Its next milestones are a customer-defined evaluation, host access for Orbit-0 and tested SI-P1 hardware.
01 / THE EXISTING RECORD
Ground evidence and the next milestones.
Learn on an existing host.
An approved software experiment on an orbital GPU is planned, subject to provider access, workload compatibility and operator approval.
Test the pathfinder.
The hardware program targets a hosted Thor-class payload with an Orin fallback, environmental test evidence and a host-defined interface.
These results provide starting evidence for a customer pilot. They do not establish a production runtime or flight qualification. The dated technical record preserves configurations, timings, quality limitations and source provenance.
02 / THE NEXT EXPERIMENTS
Test the proposed product.
| Question | Planned test | Evidence required |
|---|---|---|
| Can a customer trust the model? | One approved model on held-out, representative data, with data rights and acceptance criteria agreed in advance. | Task quality, failure cases and performance against the customer’s baseline. |
| Does the operator stay in control? | Approval, scheduling, resource limits, suspension, signed updates and recovery on a host emulator or representative compute. | Reproducible test records showing enforced limits and operator authority. |
| Can software be reused? | Keep the workload and runtime contract fixed while validating the adapter for each selected platform. | Integration effort, consistent results and measured platform-specific limits. |
| Is there a commercial benefit? | Compare quality, useful delivery time and full deployment cost with the strongest feasible ground workflow. | A customer acceptance decision and a priced deployment scope. |
Power, thermal conditions and radiation behavior require tests appropriate to the selected hardware and mission. Ground software fault injection helps test recovery, but does not measure radiation susceptibility.