In December, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic's Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rover, with human planners reviewing routes before upload. In May, NASA and IBM deployed a compressed AI model on the International Space Station and a satellite to identify floods and clouds from orbit—the first of its kind in space. The article examines how engineers are testing generative AI for spacecraft autonomy while managing the risks of nondeterministic systems.
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