The first satellite with AI onboard is now in orbit, and its tech could completely change how we respond to wildfires

Researchers inspect the computing and camera assembly of the FSSCat/Phi-sat-1 satellite.
Tim Herman/Intel Corporation
This week the European Space Agency (ESA) and Intel announced they had successfully put the first satellite with on-board AI-processing into space, PhiSat-1.
The PhiSat-1 uses Intel's Movidius Myriad 2 chip, which was not originally designed for space travel.
PhiSat-1's on-board AI is able to select and automatically delete photos of Earth if they are too obscured by cloud.
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