QUANTUM COMPUTING — a potential game changer in aerospace 🛰

Quantum technologies are expected to create a massive paradigm shift in the way aircraft are built and flown. The aerospace industry has complex computational needs in the areas of fluid dynamics, finite-element simulations, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, and more.
Today’s world run over the automation, machinery, robotics, scientific and technical knowledge where in we transfer massive amounts of data every second and this data is secured with all kind of security techniques.

Here comes a question ….what has quantum computing to do with aerospace? 🤔🤔 Well, quantum computing makes a breakthrough in field of aerospace. Quantum computing has a reputation of being difficult to understand but the again so does the rocket science. Aerospace is already intimately familiar with why the difficulties of rocket science are worth mastering, and quantum computing technology is an example of why quantum mechanics is similarly important.

Quantum computation relies on quantum mechanics which describes the behaviour and properities of elementary particles. By using quantum technology many practical sensors are produced which are essential for aerospace applications.

One of the important problems that exists in aviation is making sure the software system being developed is what you intended it to be. The verification and validation of software is a complex problem to solve, it’s very time consuming and expensive as well; quantum computing has the potential to help us be more efficient in resolving these problems. Quantum-computing technology could give software developers the ability to achieve capabilities, such as rapidly debugging millions of lines of software code and resolving complex aerospace computational problems.

The only commercial quantum computer is created by the D-Wave Systems Inc. that operates in extreme environment and enables quantum algorithms to solve very hard problems. Quantum computing can be used in many space missions. One of the real time example would be of NASA labs for quantum computation. It is used for space exploration verification, critical modelling and simulation of aerodynamic performance in order to understand different phenomenon. Due to high computational power, NASA quantum Artificial Intelligence laboratory(QuAil) houses a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer.

NASA is interested to use this quantum computer in two missions —

♣ The first is NASA Kepler mission, which aims to search for habitable, Earth-size planets. To verify and validate the transit signals of small planets as they orbit thier host stars. Quantum computer, however, performs data-intensive search for transiting planets which is potentially a unique complimentary approach for this task.

♣ The second is planning and scheduling tasks which commonly exist in space missions such as determining the observation time of a target using radar. The quantum computer can greatly reduce the time of computation to improve the efficiency.

Quantum computing is used in other potential space applications as well which include global positioning system, guidance, navigation and remote sensing. Quantum computing technology being the future of computing is next big thing that creats a huge impact in computational techniques.
My key point is to highlight the use of quantum computing in feild of aerospace.

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