A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft ' set to return humans to our natural satellite ' as well as developing its large logistic lunar lander, known as Argonaut. As dozens of missions will be operating on and around the Moon and needing to communicate together and fix their positions independently from Earth, this new era will require its own time. Accordingly, space organisations have started considering how to keep time on the Moon. Having begun with a meeting at ESA's ESTEC technology centre in the Netherlands last November, the discussion is part of a larger effort to agree a common 'LunaNet' architecture covering lunar communication and navigation services. 'LunaNet is a framework of mutually agreed-upon standards, protocols and interface requirements allowing future lunar missions to work together, conceptually similar to what we did on Earth for joint use of GPS and Galileo,' explains Javier Ventura-Traveset, ESA's Moonlight Navigation Manager, coordinating ESA contributions to LunaNet. "Now, in the lunar context, we have the opportunity to agree on our interoperability approach from the very beginning, before the systems are actually implemented.'...

What is the relationship between philosophy and AI' Philosophy, with its inquiries into the nature of knowledge, reasoning, and consciousness, has played a pivotal role in shaping the foundations of AI. One of the fundamental questions that philosophers have grappled with is the nature of human intelligence. Philosophical theories of logic, reasoning, and language have provided the groundwork for computational models and algorithms of AI systems. Moreover, philosophical debates around consciousness, perception, and moral reasoning have spurred discussions on whether AI can possess these qualities and what ethical implications arise from creating intelligent machines. The influence and contribution that logic had to the development of AI is more than evident. That's why, first and foremost, we'll analyze its significance and explore which ideas in particular were the ones that contributed to AI's development. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) was the first to formulate laws that governed rationality: he invented the first system of formal logic. While his specific contributions to the development of artificial intelligence were indirect due to the vast time gap between his era and the emergence of AI as a field, some of his philosophical concepts and methods have influenced AI research and development....