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Are we making spacecraft too autonomous?

10 mins | Jul 11, 2020
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Software has never played a more critical role in spaceflight than it does now. It's making it easier than ever to travel through space, but autonomous technologies could backfire if every glitch and error isn’t removed, experts argue. MIT Technology Review's space reporter, Neel V. Patel, investigates.

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