Educational NASA Project: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity at a Mobile Lunar Base

The article presents research and numerical experiments related to the participation of authors and students from Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy in the NASA International Program: Simulation Exploration Experience (SEE) 2020 for the creation of computer simulations of federations on the moon. A Mobile Lunar Base has been designed, in which the following processes are controlled with Artificial Intelligence: movement of three lunar platforms; control of the biosphere used to produce and purify air, water and food; control of a space airport for transfer of employees, passengers and tourists; control of security systems and a cybersecurity module. The following simulation and programming tools are used: Specially licensed software from NASA; 3D modeling with SketchUP, Blender and AutoCAD; Java programming. The authors analyze the dangers in the Mobile Lunar Base; the possible methods, ways and means for protection, prevention and dealing with each of the analyzed threats. He article concludes with a summary on the security of the systems for provision of cyber and space security of the Mobile Lunar Base. A R T I C L E I N F O : RECEIVED: 01 JUN 2020 REVISED: 09 SEP 2020 ONLINE: 20 SEP 2020 K E Y W O R D S : Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, mobile lunar base, NASA, space computing simulations, simulation exploration experience Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 E. Andreev, M. Nikolova & V. Radeva, ISIJ 46, no. 3 (2020): 321-333