NASA will test Alexa-style voice controls and streaming video conferencing in space for the first time when the Orion capsule built by Lockheed Martin Space launches on a test flight in a few weeks.
Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Amazon and Cisco teamed up on the technology, making Amazon’s Alexa voice controls work without an internet connection and Cisco’s Webex video meeting platform run on tablets using NASA’s Deep Space Network, an orbiting communications relay service used by spacecraft.
The company revealed the technology partnership with Seattle-based Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and San Jose-based Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) Wednesday morning. The companies drew on Greek mythology and named the system Callisto after the favorite companion of the goddess Artemis.
“Callisto will demonstrate a first-of-its-kind technology that could be used in the future to enable astronauts to be more self-reliant as they explore deep space,” said Lisa Callahan, Lockheed Martin Space’s…
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