{"id":183971,"date":"2024-02-29T01:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasas-new-balloon-borne-telescope-was-designed-with-ai"},"modified":"2024-02-29T01:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:23:32","slug":"nasas-new-balloon-borne-telescope-was-designed-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasas-new-balloon-borne-telescope-was-designed-with-ai","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s new balloon-borne telescope was designed with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cqZc1OZwgQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA is using an AI-powered technique called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2023\/nasa-turns-to-ai-to-design-mission-hardware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generative design<\/a>\u201d to dramatically speed up the process of designing hardware for upcoming missions \u2014 and one of the first AI-designed missions will use a massive balloon to lift a telescope to the stratosphere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The need:<\/strong> Weight is one of the most important considerations when NASA engineers are designing parts for new spacecraft \u2014 the heavier the final object is, the more fuel will be needed to launch it, and the more expensive the mission will be.<\/p>\n<p>However, engineers can\u2019t sacrifice strength in the name of keeping weight down \u2014 if a part breaks once it\u2019s in space, replacing or repairing it typically isn\u2019t an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is using an AI-powered technique called \u201cgenerative design\u201d to dramatically speed up the process of designing hardware for upcoming missions \u2014 and one of the first AI-designed missions will use a massive balloon to lift a telescope to the stratosphere. The need: Weight is one of the most important considerations when NASA engineers are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}