Part 9/12:

Future Directions and Innovations

Looking ahead, Akash highlighted several exciting innovations:

• Intra-satellite laser links allowing satellites to share data among themselves, reducing reliance on ground stations and decreasing transmission delays.

• Continued miniaturization and ruggedization of onboard electronics, enabling more powerful AI hardware.

• Leveraging open vocabulary or zero-shot models like GPT-4 or OpenAI's CLIP, which could process diverse image content without extensive labeled datasets—potentially transforming how satellites analyze imagery in real-time.