A Canadian machine learning system will make its way to the moon's surface onboard a United Arab Emirates rover that launched with SpaceX Dec. 11.
The Rashid rover, hosted on the Japanese ispace lander, is expected to touch down this spring in search of minerals and other items of interest on the lunar surface. Canada's system will inform the rover's decision-making in a big first for AI: No "deep learning" AI has ever reached beyond low Earth orbit before, company officials say.
If this works, the tech will be big for NASA's moon push, Mission Control Space Services CEO Ewan Reid told Space.com. "AI will be a critical enabling tool to making decisions on board spacecraft," Reid said. That work not only extends to seeking out water on the moon, which NASA plans to do with its Artemis missions, but also to making Earth observation more efficient. And Mission Control, a company of just 40 people so far, aims to be in the driver's seat.
Source: www.space.com
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