Swati Saxena

Lunar Operations Coordination and Management

NASA’s Artemis Program aims to establish a sustained human presence on the Moon, supported by diverse crewed and uncrewed vehicles performing transportation, exploration, construction, and resource-utilization missions. This growing activity requires a lunar operations management architecture to safely coordinate traffic. This talk presents a Moon Digital Twin for strategic and tactical trajectory planning, conflict management, and testing of operational scenarios and contingencies.

Dr. Swati Saxena is a Senior Aerospace Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center and a part-time faculty at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include applications of AI/ML and GenAI in Airspace Operations, high-fidelity modeling and simulation (Digital Twins), gas turbine aerodynamics, and aeroacoustics. She enjoys reading books and playing tennis in her free time.