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AI in space! NASA to roll out ChatGPT-like chatbot for astronauts to talk to spacecraft
26Jun By adminNo Comments
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AI in space! NASA to roll out ChatGPT-like chatbot for astronauts to talk to spacecraft

[ad_1] ChatGPT has taken over every aspect of human activity imaginable on Earth and now it is spreading its tentacles to space too. NASA engineers are working on the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. It is likely to be similar to ChatGPT. Amazingly, just like in science fiction novels, it will enable astronauts to have conversations with their spacecraft. For example, this advancement in communication capabilities brings to mind the iconic depiction of HAL 9000, the supercomputer in the science fiction novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C, Clarke - it conversed with mission pilots on a spacecraft bound for Jupiter.The focus of NASA's efforts is the Lunar Gateway. It is an upcoming "extraterrestrial" space station scheduled for launch in November 2024. This ...
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Japan Spacecraft Believed to Have Crashed on Moon During Landing
27Apr By adminNo Comments
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Japan Spacecraft Believed to Have Crashed on Moon During Landing

[ad_1] Tokyo-based Ispace Inc. said it lost contact with a lander bound for the moon and that the craft, which didn't have anyone on board, likely crashed, a big setback for the company's efforts in space transportation and Japan's push into the cosmos more broadly.Ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander was scheduled to touch down early Wednesday morning Japan time, in what would have been among the very first commercial space attempts to place a lander on the moon intact. But communication was lost shortly after engineers confirmed the lander was in a vertical position on the final approach. “It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon's surface,” Ispace said in a statement. Ispace's shares nose dived in off-market trad...
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Space Startups Are Trying to Make Money Going to the Moon
9Feb By adminNo Comments
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Space Startups Are Trying to Make Money Going to the Moon

[ad_1] For years, NASA has been planting the seeds of what it hopes will one day sprout into a full-fledged lunar economy. In the future, private companies could ferry people and cargo to and from the moon, creating a base to conduct science and, eventually, mine resources and even lunar ice as an ingredient to make rocket propellant. It's a grand vision that could start to take shape this year and eventually lead to a marketplace in which companies could use the lunar environment to turn a profit as they do now with orbiting satellites.Much will have to go right for that future to coalesce over the next decade or so, starting with making trips to and from the moon as routine as satellite launches. For now, the lunar economy consists mainly of money from NASA contracts, and it will pro...
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Artemis III: First ever manned mission to Moon’s South Pole-Step-by-step details by NASA
14Jan By adminNo Comments
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Artemis III: First ever manned mission to Moon’s South Pole-Step-by-step details by NASA

[ad_1] NASA will make history by sending the first humans to explore the region near the lunar South Pole with its Artemis III mission, which is currently planned for 2025. Now humans will be able to land on the Moon! Humans have always been drawn to explore, discover, and learn about our world, and other worlds around us. For the benefit of all humanity, NASA and its partners will land the first woman and first person of colour on the surface of the Moon with Artemis III. Following two Artemis test missions, Artemis III, currently planned for 2025, will mark humanity's first return to the lunar surface in more than 50 years. NASA will make history by sending the first humans to explore the region near the lunar South Pole. NASA's Orion spacecraftNASA's Orion spacecraft wil...
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Japan’s Ispace Sets November Target for Moon Launch
13Oct By adminNo Comments
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Japan’s Ispace Sets November Target for Moon Launch

[ad_1] Japanese aerospace company Ispace Inc. is targeting next month for its first robotic lunar mission, called M1. Japanese aerospace company Ispace Inc. is targeting next month for its first robotic lunar mission, called M1, which will send a lander and two small rovers to the surface of the moon. If successful, Ispace will become the first private company to land a spacecraft intact on the lunar surface. In a statement, the company said it's targeting a launch between Nov. 9 and Nov. 15 for its M1 mission. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will launch Ispace's hardware from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying its M1 lander into space. The lander will then journey the rest of the way to the moon. The mission is part of Ispace's HAKUTO-R program, which came about from a now-defunct com...
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NASA’s Artemis Moon Mission Is a Gigantic Waste of Money
5Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA’s Artemis Moon Mission Is a Gigantic Waste of Money

[ad_1] The NASA Artemis Moon Mission is already years late and billions over budget. Meanwhile, private companies have been pushing boundaries in space travel for more than a decade. For the second time in a week, NASA scrubbed the launch of the Space Launch System designed to return Americans to the moon. First conceived in 2010, and initially scheduled to have its first test flight in 2017, the rocket is now scheduled to take off no earlier than late September, and possibly much later. NASA, for its part, is hoping Americans will overlook a decade of expensive failure and pray for the best. They shouldn't. The SLS's path to the launch pad should never have happened. Conceived as a means to maintain US aerospace employmen...
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