Stanford University and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) aim to use AI to track the position and orientation of satellites drifting through space . The organisations have launched a competition through the organisation 's advanced modelling team , challenging AI specialists to develop algorithms that can provide accurate information on the state of a satellite from a single observation . The organisations will supply teams working on the project with around 15,000 synthetic images and an additional 500 actual images of satellites , which can be used to develop machine learning algorithms .
Stanford University and the European Space Agency (ESA) aim to use AI to track the position and orientation of satellites drifting through space. The organisations have launched a competition through the ESA's advanced concepts team, challenging AI specialists to develop algorithms that can provide accurate information on the state of a satellite from a single observation. The organisations will supply teams working on the project with around 15,000 synthetic images and an additional 1,000 actual images of satellites, which can be used to develop machine learning programmes.