227 - What's the Path Forward for AI in Space?

About this episode

Paul Lasserre discusses the expanding role of AI in satellite operations and its implications for orbital decision-making.

Paul Lasserre of Loft Orbital discusses how AI is quietly expanding its role in determining what satellites notice, flag and send home. He weighs how this progression could reshape long‑standing assumptions about who — or what — directs outcomes in orbit.

People in this episode

Guest: Paul Lasserre

Topics covered

• AI in space
• satellite technology
• orbital outcomes
• autonomous systems
• space exploration

Keywords

• AI
• satellites
• Loft Orbital
• space technology
• autonomy
• orbital outcomes
• machine learning

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Organizations: Loft Orbital

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