• SAN FRANCISCO - Before uploading a large language model to space-grade hardware, Boeing Space Mission Systems engineers sought guidance from the hardware manufacturer. • “They told us it wasn’t possible, but we are skilled engineers who were going to figure out a pathway to make it happen,” Arvel Chappell III, Boeing Space Mission Systems AI Lab director, toldSpaceNews. • In recent ground tests, Boeing engineers demonstrated that a large language model running on commercial off-the-shelf hardware could examine telemetry and report in natural language on the health of a satellite. • “It speeds up the latency,” Chappell said. • “We were looking at being able to talk to our satellite in natural language and get a response back that made sense instead of just zeros and ones that had to be deciphered by ground software and engineers.” Space-Based Edge Traditionally, satellites have sent telemetry to the ground for analysis. • Increasingly, companies are developing edge computers for satellites and shielding terrestrial devices for space applications.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO - Before uploading a large language model to space-grade hardware, Boeing Space Mission Systems engineers sought guidance from the hardware manufacturer. “They told us it wasn’t possible, but we are skilled engineers who were going to figure out a pathway to make it happen,” Arvel Chappell III, Boeing Space Mission Systems AI Lab director, told SpaceNews. In recent ground tests, Boeing engineers demonstrated that a large language model running on commercial off-the-shelf hardware could examine telemetry and report in natural language on the health of a satellite. “It speeds up th

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