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Engineering Notebook

AI at work: mastering the airspace

By Aaron Karp and Ben Iannotta

November 2024

U.K. researchers are in the midst of Project Bluebird, a multiyear effort to create competing versions of artificial intelligence agents to see if one could in theory be capable of autonomously controlling air traffic. Aaron Karp and Ben Iannotta spoke to researchers about their plans to conduct live trials in the safety of a digital twin of the airspace.

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Fighting for Clipper

November 2024

The Europa Clipper probe, now on its way to orbit Jupiter, was a hard sell for NASA and the Obama White House. Casey Dreier of The Planetary Society tells the story of how advocates saved the $5.2 billion mission from the budget ax more than once.
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Winning in the advanced air mobility market

November 2024

Few would dispute that electric air taxi developers face headwinds in their efforts to begin flying passengers within a year or two. Mattia Celli and Jan Schmidt of Bain & Company, the Boston-based consulting firm, offer guidelines for success.

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