Most satellites send down pictures and leave the analysis to the ground. Godel Space is building the layer that analyzes on board and proves what it did: it runs foundation models on the spacecraft and returns verified findings instead of raw pixels, with a signed record of the model, the data, and the mission behind every finding.
Bounded autonomy: the spacecraft acts without waiting for the ground, and only within limits someone signed. What we learn from every run comes back as evidence and goes up again as a signed package. That is what makes the autonomy trustworthy: an operator can read every rule before it flies and verify every finding after. Agentic on the ground, deterministic at the edge.
Wildfire, flood, and disaster mapping are where we're proving it first. Version one runs today at https://lnkd.in/gmjNyMKk on flight-representative hardware, with flight deployment in preparation.
This week we join the first cohort of STAGE, the Space Northwest accelerator. Twelve weeks starting Monday at the Museum of Flight, a U.S. government growth track shaped by the Commercial Space Federation (CSF), and a capstone in December. We'll be introduced at the Space Northwest Symposium on September 29 in Federal Way.
Because missions load as signed packages, the same layer takes on new Earth observation, situational awareness, and ISR work for commercial and government users without a new payload. If you make decisions on imagery that arrives after the window closed, or over a link you can't count on, I want to hear how you handle it today.
Thank you to Sean McClinton, Michael Doyle, and Sierra Ré Hyson for the conversations that led here, and to Space Northwest, the Commercial Space Federation (CSF), and the cities of City of Kent, Washington, City of Redmond, WA, and City of Bellevue, Washington for backing a first cohort.
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Golden Dome shaping up!