BOULDER, Colo. — Satellite operators need better space weather models to maximize the life of their satellites and to avoid collisions in low Earth orbit. The growth in the population of satellites ...

For a while now, we’ve been talking about transformers, frontier neural network logic models, as a transformative technology, no pun intended. But now, these attention mechanisms have other competing ...

Scientists with the University of California, Berkeley, have carried out successful tests of a next-gen microgravity 3D printer called SpaceCAL. The tests were carried out as part of the Virgin ...

In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results suggest that an era of autonomous space exploration may be closer than we ...

At the Center for AEroSpace Autonomy Research at Stanford University, students use robotic testbeds to simulate autonomous space operations and produce synthetic imagery for training AI models. Credit ...

Click to open image viewer. This 1/10th scale model of the Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for ...