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Satlyt has raised $8m to run AI on satellites, TechCrunch reports. The startup’s pitch is open software that can work across different companies’ satellites, rather than a closed, all-in-one system.

Why it matters

That puts a practical question behind the orbital ambition: can shared software make computing in space less tied to one operator’s hardware? TechCrunch likens Satlyt’s approach to Android and SpaceX’s to the iPhone. The comparison is a neat shorthand, but the proof will be whether the software works across real satellite fleets.

Discuss: For satellite computing, would you back an open platform that can work across operators, or is a tightly integrated, closed system more likely to succeed?

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