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The European Space Agency has already demonstrated on-the-edge processing with Phi-Sat-1. They use AI to detect clouds and only downlink images below a certain cloud cover threshold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi-Sat-1

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And this was previously demonstrated by NASA on EO-1. (2017 paper)

https://ml.jpl.nasa.gov/papers/wagstaff/wagstaff-eo1-17.pdf

> Intel Movidius board with a Myriad II chip (VPU)

So, is this cubesat 99% thermal control radiators or what?

This to me seems the biggest problem with the concept: on Earth heat management is incredibly cheap. In space it's a gigantic problem.

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