Open Cosmos and Ubotica Technologies publicly announce their collaboration to contribute to NASA JPL’s Federated Autonomous Measurement Flight Demonstration (FAME) under the Earth Science Division’s Advanced Information Systems Technology program.

Hammer and Accenture-1 are designated AI satellite assets in the program, with SPACE:AI powering onboard event detection and rapid decision-making.

Two core innovations under FAME are real-time onboard identification via SPACE:AI and the Dynamic Targeting capability first demonstrated in orbit in 2025 by JPL, Ubotica, and Open Cosmos.

A collaboration between Ubotica Technologies, Open Cosmos, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is launching the Flight Demonstration of Federated Autonomous MEasurement (FAME) under NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office to showcase autonomous, federated Earth observation across a constellation of more than 50 spacecraft.

The program is designed as a multiyear effort: year one focuses on maturing flight capabilities and onboard AI tests, followed by scaling to 50+ spacecraft and thousands of automated alerts in years two and three across multiple operators and agencies.

The initiative marks a shift from ground-based analysis to in-orbit decision-making, enabling latency reductions and rapid activation of insights within minutes.

Operationally, SPACE:AI is already in use in Live Maritime Intelligence for predictive maritime domain awareness, illustrating practical, real-world deployment of onboard AI.

The project builds on the 2025 Dynamic Targeting demonstration, expanding these capabilities into a federated network operated by multiple parties.

The initial six-spacecraft demonstration is planned for summer 2026, testing onboard AI processing, real-time event detection, and Dynamic Targeting, which can autonomously reorient a spacecraft to capture high-resolution confirmation imagery within about 60 seconds.

Flight demonstrations will begin in summer 2026 with six satellites, then scale to more than 50 satellites over three years, processing thousands of automated alerts and coordinating autonomous tasks across operators.

FAME aims to connect a large constellation of satellites to autonomously detect, analyze, and respond to events in near real-time, enabling onboard intelligence and reducing reliance on ground processing.

Two Open Cosmos satellites, HAMMER and Accenture-1 (SUAC), equipped with Ubotica’s SPACE:AI and hyperspectral imaging, will join the FAME network to demonstrate autonomous, federated Earth observation across the multi-satellite fleet.