MOI-1A is a 14 kg Earth-imaging and in-orbit computing satellite from the Hyderabad start-up TakeMe2Space. It flew on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare from Vandenberg, California, on 1 October 2026 (US time), replacing MOI-1, which was lost on PSLV-C62.
MOI-1A pairs a nine-band multispectral camera with an onboard computer of 117 trillion operations per second and 2 TB of storage. Customers upload their own AI models, which run on the images in orbit; only the results need to come down, saving downlink time. TakeMe2Space reported 23 customers and calls this the first step towards an "orbital data centre".
An earlier test satellite, MOI-TD, flew on the POEM-4 platform after launch on 30 December 2024 and tested AI tasks in orbit. The first operational satellite, MOI-1, was lost on 12 January 2026 when the third stage of ISRO's PSLV-C62 failed. TakeMe2Space then booked the earliest available SpaceX flight for a near-identical replacement.
MOI-1A was one of about 130 payloads on the Transporter-18 Falcon 9 flight and was released from D-Orbit's ION orbital transfer vehicle. It is a 6U CubeSat.