Project FLUID: federated learning on the International Space Station

Trained machine learning models jointly from data held on Earth and data held on the station, without pooling the data.

Operator	Hewlett Packard Enterprise, with NASA
Developer	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Host	HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, International Space Station
Where	space station
Class	learning
Hardware	HPE Spaceborne Computer-2
Model or software	Federated learning; no model named
Launched	not applicable
Ran	by February 2024

What was said, and by whom

“HPE completes first Project FLUID experiment in collaboration with NASA”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise: operator of the host computer. Accelerating space exploration with the Spaceborne Computer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Published 29 Feb 2024 (date of the entry on the page). Read 4 Oct 2026, in part: the first 16 of 64 timeline entries, and four entries in full. Read from an Internet Archive capture of the page.
“This experiment resulted in the first successful implementation of machine learning models trained in a federated manner using data held separately on both Earth and aboard the International Space Station.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise: operator of the host computer. Accelerating space exploration with the Spaceborne Computer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Published 29 Feb 2024 (date of the entry on the page). Read 4 Oct 2026, in part: the first 16 of 64 timeline entries, and four entries in full. Read from an Internet Archive capture of the page.

First federated training between Earth and the space station: unchecked. Recorded as made.

The source is a timeline entry of two sentences. No paper or data was found.