The Hungarian CubeSat satellite, called VIREO (Virtual Intelligence Realization for Earth Observation), launched last April, successfully completed its mission on Wednesday, having burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere, urvilag.hu reported.
VIREO was designed to use artificial intelligence (AI) in space, extending its in-flight processing capabilities. The portal recalled that VIREO’s placement to the orbit was special. It spent more than a month on board an orbital transport vehicle to find the optimal orbit. The launch vehicle successfully reached its destination, and VIREO immediately settled into its proper orbit and continued its Earth observation experiments without a hitch.
A number of space experiments have been carried out on board VIREO, most notably a joint development with the Hungarian aiMotive’s team. This involved processing image data captured by the satellite’s cameras in space using AI-based image processing algorithms.
A novelty was that a payload control subsystem developed in-house was tested in the 10×10×10 …