'Smart' spacecraft makes its own decisions
'Smart' spacecraft makes its own decisions
New York Times July 6, 2006
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AI will increasingly give
spacecraft the ability to think for
themselves. The AI group at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrote the
software that manages the schedule
of Earth Observing-1, a satellite
that looks for natural disasters
like volcanic eruptions, wildfires
and floods. It reprograms itself to
image these targets and provide
rapid...
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