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PHISAT 2
European AI Earth Observation Technology Demonstrator · ESA / European Commercial Consortium
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Phisat-2, an ESA technology demonstration satellite carrying an onboard artificial intelligence processor that analyzes imagery directly in orbit — filtering out cloud-covered or otherwise useless images before they're ever downlinked, saving bandwidth by deciding what's worth sending back to Earth rather than transmitting everything indiscriminately.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 294 mi (473–474 km)
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- One orbit
- 93.9 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 60470
- Int’l designator
- 2024-149C
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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