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AI Becomes Mission Control

AI is emerging as a critical tool for more resilient space operations, helping operators manage growing constellations, detect cyber threats, avoid collisions, predict failures and enable greater spacecraft autonomy.

Jesús Bernal Allende joins Constellations to explore how existing space law is being applied as autonomous systems take on a larger share of spacecraft decision making.

As orbital activity accelerates, the challenge for space situational awareness is shifting from collecting more data to ensuring its accuracy, interoperability and trustworthiness through advanced data fusion and greater collaboration among operators, governments and commercial providers.

As AI pushes terrestrial data centers toward their power and capacity limits, researchers and industry leaders are exploring orbital data centers as a potential long-term solution for scalable, resilient computing despite significant technical and economic hurdles.

Missile defense systems and autonomous UAVs are converging around a shared need for tighter data integration, AI-driven decision-making and multi-layered network architectures to operate effectively in contested environments. Future resilience will depend on unifying sensing, communication and control into a single intelligent system, while overcoming persistent challenges in interoperability, policy and real-time coordination.