Engineers are using commercial artificial intelligence software at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to speed up the design, analysis and development of spacecraft and mission hardware, which the technicians refer to as evolved structures.
Research Engineer Ryan McClelland, who started the creation of the structures, noted that NASA-standard validation software and processes are being used to analyze the parts and detect possible failure points in such components, the space agency said Friday.
“You can perform the design, analysis and fabrication of a prototype part, and have it in hand in as little as one week,” McClelland said. “It can be radically fast compared with how we’re used to working.”
According to the agency, McClelland has designed evolved parts in support of NASA missions—among them, the EXoplanet Climate Infrared Telescope endeavor.
The research engineer designed and built a titanium scaffold for the back of the EXCITE telescope, which is set to undergo an engineering test flight as soon as the fall of this year.
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