AI eXpress 1 Plus completes first generation in orbit AI satellite trio

Planetek Italia has placed the AI eXpress 1 Plus (AIX-1+) satellite in orbit, completing the first generation of its AI eXpress constellation for in-orbit artificial intelligence processing of Earth observation data.

AIX-1+ launched on November 28, 2025, at 10:44 a.m. PT (7:44 p.m. GMT+1) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission (Transporter 15) from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and was deployed into a 520 km Sun-synchronous orbit about an hour after liftoff.

Together with the earlier AIX-1 and AIX-1p spacecraft, AIX-1+ forms a fully operational first-generation constellation designed to process information directly in orbit using a hybrid edge and cloud architecture that co

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