Description Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more and more popular in solving complicated engineering problems. It has also been applied to addressing space-related challenges, e.g mission design, and planning, space debris solutions, autonomous navigation, satellite data processing, space system design.  Explorations of minor bodies have attracted lots of attention, in terms of their scientific and resource values, and also human safety concerns. The minor body usually has irregular shapes, e.g. potato, diamond, bilobe, etc. In addition, since they are usually far from Earth, due to the limitations of ground observations, the mass, rotation, even the outgassing (for comets) of the minor body cannot be determined accurately before the spacecraft's arrival. Therefore, challenges are brought up for design a robust mission in the highly uncertain dynamical environment. This project aims to investigate AI methods for space mission design to small bodies. Key Objectives

1. Develop a comprehensive review of existing AI applications in addressing space challenges with the focus on space mission design, autonomous navigation, and analyze the advantages and shortages of these AI applications.
2. analyze one or more scenarios in space mission design to small solar system bodies, e.g. optical navigation, landing on the asteroid, or mining the asteroid, etc.