Flight demonstrator

MASAQ-01

GCU aboard a 3U CubeSat, proving onboard agentic autonomy in orbit.

MASAQ-01 will fly a GCU aboard a 3U CubeSat to demonstrate and derisk onboard agentic autonomy: tasked in natural language from CONTACT, deciding onboard what matters and what to send home, all within a CubeSat's power budget.

Platform: 3U CubeSat
Orbit: Low Earth orbit
Target launch: Q1 2028
Duration: 1 year

What it demonstrates

Natural-language tasking

Operators tell the spacecraft what matters from CONTACT, with no software or model update.

Onboard decisions

GCU decides which observations are worth sending home, and explains why.

Within a CubeSat budget

All of it running inside the power, compute and downlink limits of a 3U CubeSat.

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