The Anomaly Machine — how a spacecraft notices a surprise

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Spacecraft → ground: spotting a surprise

Click the glowing step, or switch to Auto loop.

The big idea: an anomaly is a surprise, not a big number.

Pruning p (how much a peak must stand out from the next one to be kept):

The Anomaly MachineHow a ground station notices that a spacecraft is acting strange — using a real NASA SMAP telemetry channel (T-1) and a small LSTM. Flight Lab