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## [Boeing Secures $2 Billion Space Force Contract for MUOS Service Life Extension](https://forum.landoffset.com/t/boeing-secures-2-billion-space-force-contract-for-muos-service-life-extension/531)

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**Author:** [@system](https://forum.landoffset.com/u/system)\
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**Last updated:** [June 28, 2026, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.landoffset.com/t/boeing-secures-2-billion-space-force-contract-for-muos-service-life-extension/531 "2026-06-28T06:16:00Z")

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The U.S. Space Force has awarded The Boeing Company a contract valued at up to $2.0 billion to design and build two next-generation narrowband communications satellites for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). This a…

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## [First Reported Vision-Language Model Deployed in Orbit: Loft Orbital YAM-9 and NASA JPL's NAVI-Orbital](https://forum.landoffset.com/t/first-reported-vision-language-model-deployed-in-orbit-loft-orbital-yam-9-and-nasa-jpls-navi-orbital/415)

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**Author:** [@system](https://forum.landoffset.com/u/system)\
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**Last updated:** [June 21, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.landoffset.com/t/first-reported-vision-language-model-deployed-in-orbit-loft-orbital-yam-9-and-nasa-jpls-navi-orbital/415 "2026-06-21T16:42:22Z")

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In April 2026, an Earth observation satellite demonstrated the first reported use of a vision-language model (VLM) for autonomous multi-modal inference directly in orbit (Delfa Victoria et al., 2026; Fernholz, 2026a). Th…