Rama Afullo, a Kenyan American engineer who previously worked in Google's cloud business and briefly at SpaceX's Starlink, co-founded Satlyt, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and Nairobi, to build software that lets many satellites share large computing jobs in space. The company raised an $8 million seed round and does not plan to build its own spacecraft; its software is set to launch Thursday on a SpaceX rocket alongside the first prototype of Google's Project Suncatcher. The article reports that Satlyt's software has flown on two demonstration missions, and that on a Momentus spacecraft Google DeepMind's Gemma model cut the size of a transmission about onboard software errors by more than 60%, which Afullo says can save hundreds of thousands of dollars per satellite each year. The upcoming mission uses hardware from TakeMe2Space and involves three customers: NASA, Stellerian and TakeMe2Space itself.
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