Northrop Grumman inks deal with tech startup for accelerated, AI-enabled spacecraft design

Northrop Grumman inks deal with tech startup for accelerated, AI-enabled spacecraft design

Artificial intelligence startup Luminary Cloud has developed a physics-based AI model for Northrop Grumman that will allow the defense contractor to more quickly design and build new spacecraft. Announced on Tuesday, the new partnership gives engineers access to a purpose-built tool known as Physics AI that can generate high-fidelity simulations of spacecraft subsystems in seconds. The model was built in collaboration between Luminary Cloud and …

AI is Designing a New Spacecraft Propulsion Element

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to spacecraft propulsion with a new physics AI foundation model that is being designed by Northrop Grumman and Luminary Cloud. The model is capable of rapidly designing a spacecraft thruster nozzle. “Using AI to make something small, like a spacecraft thruster, puts us on a path to do much bigger things, like using AI to design larger components or even an entire spacecraft.” Han Park, NGCUsing Lumin…

Northrop Grumman collaborates on AI-designed spacecraft propulsion element – SatNews

A new physics AI model, built by Northrop Grumman and Luminary Cloud, with support from NVIDIA, could dramatically speed design of components and, one day, entire spacecraft. Using Luminary Cloud’s Physics AI platform, with help from NVIDIA’s Computer Aided Engineering product team, Northrop Grumman will leverage its decades of experience in propulsion physics to build an AI foundation model capable of designing a higher-performing spacecraft t…