From Voyager to OPS-SAT: The Evolution of a Space Photography Icon

February 14, 1990: Voyager 1 captures the Pale Blue Dot, a breathtaking view of Earth from a staggering 6 billion kilometers away. A profound reminder of our place in the universe. 🌍✨

November 21, 2023: The Pale Blue Dot is sent back to space to be enhanced by OPS-SAT-1’s onboard Generative AI. It is downlinked back to Earth as the Denoised Blue Dot (this time from approximately 440 kilometers away).

The Pale Blue Dot: picture taken by Voyager 1, capturing our world in a single pixel.	The Denoised Blue Dot: enhanced from OPS-SAT-1, showcasing clarity brought by onboard AI.

Download the image from the experiment’s GitHub repo.

Read more about this experiment in the upcoming pre-print for the IEEE AeroConf in March 2024, stay tuned!

Big thanks to the OPS-SAT Mission Control Team for always being so keen on flying my experiments! Apply to fly your own experiments onboard the OPS-SAT-1 Space Lab.

A version of this post was first published on LinkedIn.