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https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/01/military-eyes-ai-cloud-computing-space-decade/171692/

Military Eyes AI, Cloud Computing in Space in a Decade

In order to assemble enough computing power to do machine learning in space, you need to put a lot of small computers in low Earth orbit and then link them up. Over the next two years, a DARPA program called Blackjack will attempt to prove out concepts that could be used to build a self-organizing orbital mesh network.

New computer chip architectures, perhaps mimicking the human brain, could accelerate the creation of an orbiting machine-learning network, said Jeff Sheehey, chief engineer of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. His agency is building processors that are “100 times better” than the radiation-hardened ones that power today’s spacecraft. “We’re also looking at neuromorphic processors,” he said, chips that function less like conventional integrated circuits and more like the synapses of the human brain. More intelligent systems will be necessary if humanity is to build a sustained presence in space, he said. It’s “going to require a lot of assets to be in place that may not have humans tending them for long periods of time. The humans will be there intermittently.”