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NASA outlined how it could support a federal AI effort across mission archives
On July 22, NASA said it was exploring how mission data and expertise could support Genesis alongside Department of Energy computing and AI capabilities.
On July 22, 2026, NASA said it was supporting Genesis, a national effort created by a November 24, 2025 executive order. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy led the effort, which NASA said had expanded to more than 15 federal agencies. NASA was exploring how its missions, data and expertise could support the broader effort. For space operations, it described combining its mission expertise with Department of Energy computing and AI capabilities.
NASA put the archive at more than 150 petabytes collected across decades of missions and research. It proposed using AI to connect data from different missions and instruments, find patterns and improve predictions.
The value depends on the project
The promise is easier access to an archive too large for researchers to inspect one observation at a time. Its value will become clearer when a specific project shows which data it used, what AI changed, how accurate the result was and whether other researchers can reproduce it.
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