Post by The Alan Turing Institute

🛰️ Space is becoming increasingly congested and contested. Are we equipped to understand what’s happening in orbit?   This week, our Defence AI Research Centre Lead, Victoria Nockles, presented to our internal teams the work of project Aemelia, an AI-powered satellite radar system that is aiming to improve space security.   With thousands of orbit proximity warnings issued every month and growing concerns around space traffic management, space surveillance is becoming a critical challenge for national infrastructure, security and resilience.   Project Aemelia is exploring a new approach.   We’re working with the University of Birmingham to develop the Aemelia Sub-THz Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) mission concept which could be used to monitor spaceborne assets and debris.   Victoria and Ian Groves, a Senior Data Scientist on Project Aemelia, explored how AI can be used to: ➡️ characterise objects of interest ➡️ infer information on their behaviour ➡️ perform damage assessment   This approach could be used to aid Rendez-Vous Proximity-Operations of in-orbit servicers and orbiters and provide space traffic management.   Learn more about Project Aemelia and how we’re advancing the future of space surveillance: https://bit.ly/4wHLqzV   #AI #DefenceAI #SpaceSurveillance #SpaceTrafficManagement