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From the universe, to our milky way to our solar system to our planet, us humans cannot even fathom how grand the universe is to ourselves. Though, through major innovations in the past, we have been able to engineer spacecrafts, voyagers, and build rockets all through the help of collaboration of humans.
Though, our NASA aerospace engineers have recently begun developing robotic inventions that create more efficient paths and travel times to explore our solar system. One step further, artificial intelligence can help humans acquire greater knowledge, creativity, and insight through building our innovations.
One instance of their role, digital twins, which can project and simulate scenarios of rockets landing on various planets or our moon and respond to environmental disturbances. As this shows, artificial intelligence can help mitigate financial costs due to accidents or crashes that happen from launching rockets with high accuracy. Furthemore, artificial intelligence can detect if there are high amounts of discrepancies between the successful landing of spacecraft and the space weather from planets in our solar system.
Another instance of the use of artificial intelligence in our solar system, a Japanese space agency has recently been the first to implement artificial intelligence in rockets. These rockets can inspect its surroundings, monitor its performance, and analyze the projection of itself, all being self-controlled.
From this, it is clear that the future of space exploration and spacecrafts are heading towards an AI-driven direction. We can only expect that the innovations, efficiency, and production will improve over time as our engineers help contribute to this era of artificial intelligence.
References
Greengard, S., Bagchi, S., Grover, S., & Kugler, L. (n.d.). Space exploration blasts off with ai. Communications of the ACM. https://cacm.acm.org/news/space-exploration-blasts-off-with-ai/#:~:text=Yet%20AI%20is%20suddenly%20changing,analysis%20capabilities%2C”%20Salvagnini%20said