Can AI Control a Spacecraft?
Make money doing the work you believe inStart your SubstackLearn moreFor youJeevan Kumar24m@thejeevankumarCan AI control a spacecraft?Currently, all spacecraft are controlled manually by engineers on Earth. But when a spacecraft travels far away, it becomes impossible to control them in realtime.A satellite flying near Europa's orbit will take about 45 minutes to send its radio signal to Earth. It's trained to understand that if it drops a ball, it will fall down.
- ▪Make money doing the work you believe inStart your SubstackLearn moreFor youJeevan Kumar24m@thejeevankumarCan AI control a spacecraft?Currently, all spacecraft are controlled manually by engineers on Earth.
- ▪But when a spacecraft travels far away, it becomes impossible to control them in realtime.A satellite flying near Europa's orbit will take about 45 minutes to send its radio signal to Earth.
- ▪It's trained to understand that if it drops a ball, it will fall down.
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| Original publisher | Substack |
| Canonical URL | https://substack.com/@thejeevankumar/note/c-348060494 |
| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:53:24 +0000 |
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Make money doing the work you believe inStart your SubstackLearn moreFor youJeevan Kumar24m@thejeevankumarCan AI control a spacecraft?Currently, all spacecraft are controlled manually by engineers on Earth. But when a spacecraft travels far away, it becomes impossible to control them in realtime.A satellite flying near Europa's orbit will take about 45 minutes to send its radio signal to Earth. That means scientists have to wait about 2 hrs to control the satellite.If a water plume appears suddenly, and the satellite can immediately fly into it, it could collect valuable data which it could send to Earth.For such a task, it would definitely be needing AI systems that can act in realtime.But current top robotics AI foundational models are trained on datasets collected from Earth.
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