John Goodman

Exploration Cost: The Exploration Coefficient in Onboard Reinforcement-Learning Schedulers Is an Independent Driver of Battery Aging

Reinforcement-learning (RL) schedulers are now flying on real spacecraft: NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (launched 24 September 2025, per NASA’s own mission status page — not itself a LEO mission; it orbits near the Sun–Earth L1 point) uses deep RL as its default operational scheduler for long-horizon operatio...