NASA outlines how superintelligence could mine 150PB of data and enable new missions
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-10-11
- NASA's leadership laid out its two biggest themes for how superintelligence could help the agency.
- Data mining: NASA has collected roughly 150 petabytes of data; superintelligence could surface missed discoveries and handle the huge volumes from future missions like Roman.
- New mission classes: superintelligence for spacecraft design (advanced high-temperature materials), mission planning, and onboard autonomy (including reactor control) — enabling missions where Earth-based real-time control is impractical due to communication delays.
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