Case Study: a.i. solutions achieves 52x compute capacity and real-time deep-space trajectory analysis with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Space exploration engineering company leverages the cloud for trajectory analysis and design

a.i. solutions, a 450‑person engineering firm supporting government and commercial space missions, built the Deep Space Trajectory Explorer to help astrophysicists analyze and select complex multi‑body trajectories for projects like NASA’s Deep Space Gateway. The challenge was computational: exploring millions of tiny variations in multi‑dimensional orbital problems overwhelmed local workstations and constrained design space coverage to about 25,000 trajectories (under 2%), forcing long waits or discarded solutions.

By adopting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (bare‑metal compute, block volumes, and object storage) and a Java 8 streaming stack with third‑party tooling, a.i. solutions could spin up HPC resources in minutes and run massively parallel jobs on demand. The cloud deployment expanded capacity 52×—from ~25,000 to ~1.3 million trajectory evaluations—enabling real‑time demonstrations, faster time‑to‑solution, and cost‑effective, burstable compute that preserves full design‑space exploration.

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Sean M Phillips

Principal Software Engineer