The Journal of Space Commerce

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AI is Designing a New Spacecraft Propulsion Element

Northrop Grumman Collaborating with Luminary Cloud on the Project

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Tom Patton
Nov 03, 2025
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to spacecraft propulsion with a new physics AI foundation model that is being designed by Northrop Grumman and Luminary Cloud. The model is capable of rapidly designing a spacecraft thruster nozzle.

“Using AI to make something small, like a spacecraft thruster, puts us on a path to do much bigger things, lik…

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