NASA SPAR Lab Shares AI Tool For Spacecraft

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SAN FRANCISCO – Artificial intelligence promises to make spacecraft increasingly resilient and capable of gathering data without waiting for instructions from ground controllers. "We've been limited with the way we've done work so far," Evana Gizzi, AI research lead at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told SpaceNews . "And there are so many things we want to do." Distributed missions, for example, where spacecraft work with landers and rovers to achieve common goals, will require autonomous capabilities. AI also paves the way for extensible mission architectures, which allow new spacecraft and sensors to join on-orbit swarms. "At NASA and in the aerospace industry in general, mission concepts are becoming more complex, which means more of them can't be realized without AI," said Gizzi, who earned a PhD in artificial intelligence from Tufts University. Measuring Methane Still, introducing AI to NASA missions is not easy. Space mission planners tend to be risk averse and understandably wary of untested algorithms.