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NASA’s Latest Mars Rover, Perseverance, Will Get Help from AI on the Red Planet
As NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, prepares to land on the Martian surface Feb. 18 (Thursday) after a seven-month flight to the red planet, the use of AI will ...Full Article
Microsoft, HPE Bringing AI, Edge, Cloud to Earth Orbit in Preparation for Mars Missions
The International Space Station will soon get a delivery of powerful AI, edge and cloud computing tools from HPE and Microsoft Azure to expand technology experiments aimed at preparing ...Full Article
Boeing Names New Software Chief
Embattled aerospace giant Boeing Co. has hired a former Google and SpaceX software development chief to oversee its troubled software engineering operations. Boeing (NYSE: BA) on Friday (Nov. 6) ...Full Article
NASA Leverages HPC to Model an All-Electric Airplane
NASA is expanding its HPC-driven aeronautical research with an all-electric experimental aircraft dubbed the X-57 “Maxwell,” using its Pleiades HPC cluster to model and simulate critical aerodynamic flight characteristics. ...Full Article
COVID-19 HPC Consortium Expands to Europe, Reports on Research Projects
The COVID-19 HPC Consortium, a public-private effort delivering free access to HPC processing for scientists pursuing coronavirus research – some utilizing AI-based techniques – has expanded to more than ...Full Article
NASA Simulator Shapes Orion Spacecraft Design
NASA is using flow simulations running on its Pleiades supercomputer to help design the agency’s next manned spacecraft, Orion. Crew safety is paramount, so NASA engineers are using the ...Full Article
Servers in Orbit, Datacenters Not Far Behind
The International Space Station shines a little brighter in the night sky thanks to what amounts to an orbiting supercomputer lofted to the outpost last year as part of ...Full Article
‘Wireless-in-Space’ Test Could Help Launch Sensor Nets
Big thinkers with deep pockets like uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk want to bring wireless connectivity to the masses by launching satellite Internet constellations. Given technical issues like latency and the ...Full Article
CMU Hands Curiosity Rover Its Autonomy
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/pia14175_2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="51" border="0" />Back in July, Curiosity, NASA’s Mars rover, began a 5.3 mile journey to Mount Sharp, a 3.4 mile-high mountain in the ...Full Article
NASA Ramps Up Efforts to Bring Manufacturing to Outer Space
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-The_Centre_of_the_Milky_Way.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />The thought of building structures out in space brings to mind futuristic sci-fi films like Star Wars or Star Trek. However, ...Full Article
