Industry Using AI to Enhance Space-Based Communications, Sensing

Published on April 24, 2024



With an increasing number of commercial satellites, military constellations and all their data flowing through space, government and industry operators said they are looking to artificial intelligence to help them to handle ever-more complex missions.

AI software is enabling users to change a spacecraft’s capabilities while in orbit, making the satellites less reliant on hardware.

“AI doesn’t exist without software,” Aslan Tricha, vice president of automation and orchestration at ALL.SPACE, a maker of satellite terminals for the military, said during a panel at the recent Satellite 2024 Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. But the satellite industry has traditionally centered on hardware. “We build everything. It’s fixed. It’s kind of deployed as is, and it has to last 20 years,” he said.

Read Full Article

Other news

Top military technology innovation trends

April 24, 2024
JUDGING from war and peace-related news nowadays, it would seem that countries cannot help but be aware of the absence of an international arms control agreement, i.e., the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (1987) which ended when President Donald Trump announced US withdrawal from the treaty claiming Russia had broken the agreement.

Here are the two companies creating drone wingmen for the US Air Force

April 24, 2024
The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday announced it selected Anduril and General Atomics to keep designing, building and testing its first batch of drone wingmen known as collaborative combat aircraft.The decision on contract option awards marks the service’s most significant step yet as it aims to create a series of drones using autonomous software to fly alongside piloted fighters, such as the F-35 and