In another odd marriage of capitalism and space travel, Lockheed Martin has announced that it will be sending an Amazon Echo as part of the upcoming Artemis 1 mission.
No, astronauts will not be using it to check the weather or play music on the moon. It will be used to explore how voice recognition technology could be used to help astronauts in the future.
The project is a partnership between Amazon and Cisco. The goal is to show how the two platforms could be used on future missions.
Rob Chambers, the director of commercial civil space strategy for Lockheed Martin, told the site that they want to show that this type of technology can help astronauts with some of their unique human interface technologies.
The course for the moon was set by Alexa.
The tech will be able to help astronauts with a wide range of tasks.
Crew members might be able to access key pieces of data regarding flight trajectory with it, and might even be able to adjust their controls via voice command.
One way you can do this with the Callisto payload is to say toAlexa, what is the average temperature across all the batteries, and what is the peak temperature? Chambers said it would perform data processing for you.
The stage is testing.
There won't be anyone on Artemis 1 to test out Callisto's voice command. Chambers said there will be virtual crew members that will give commands.
It is all about testing it on this flight to see if it is worth the time and money, and then we can assess how it can be used as we move forward.
It seems like this is a stunt for now. If things go well, we might see a future where astronauts control their craft via voice command.
Hopefully, they can work out the problem before the next one.
Amazon will be testing its voice assistant on Artemis 1.
NASA blamed Jeff Bezos' lawsuit for the delayed Moon landing.
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