NASA sending one ipad According to a report by 9To5Mac, the Artemis 1 on the Moon mission aboard the uncrewed Orion spacecraft. Gadget work? to assist with testing heroinevoice assistant Alexa and Webex, Cisco’s video conferencing software on Orion. Alexa and Webex will be part of Orion’s payload, Callisto. NASA has set a target of launch on August 29.
The industry-funded payload will be located on Orion’s center console and will include a tablet that will test Webex by Cisco video conferencing software, broadcast video and audio from the Mission Control Center at Johnson, and custom-built by Lockheed Martin. Hardware and software and Amazon that will test Amazon’s voice-based virtual assistant Alexa to respond to transmitted audio. […]
Traveling in deep space, it would take a very long time for Alexa to access the cloud on Orion back to Earth, so Callisto uses NASA’s Deep Space Network and a local database on the spacecraft to communicate with and respond to Alexa. Will do ”, said NASA. blog post.
This tablet is going to be the iPad, the report confirms and will be the “first iPad to fly on NASA’s Moon mission”. It will use WebEx and act as an astronaut talking to Alexa, as the Orion mission is a no-crew one.
A CNET report in January outlined NASA’s plans to test Alexa and Webex in space. The idea is to test software solutions with Virtual Crew at Johnson Space Center, Houston. The virtual crew on Earth will attempt to communicate with and issue commands to the AI assistant via a video on the iPad with audio playing on the speaker. The commands will be sent through NASA’s Deep Space Network, which includes the giant radio antennas used for communications during space missions. Webex will help with ground control, video conferencing with other crewmates and people back on Earth.
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