Deployment
CIMON at North America
Crew Interactive Mobile Companion: a free-flying spherical ISS crew-assistant built by Airbus (funded by DLR) using IBM Watson for natural-language interaction. Activated and controlled by astronaut voice command ('wake up'); it is a voice assistant with autonomous free-flight station-keeping, NOT an autonomous agent. CIMON-1 demonstrated on the ISS from 2018-06-29 and returned to Earth 2019-08-27; CIMON-2 launched 2019-12-05 (later operational status not publicly confirmed).
CIMON by Airbus · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
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North American operational deployment. CIMON operations.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-08
- Model
- CIMON
- Company
- Airbus
- Location
- North America
- Status
- operational
- ID
569741b4-c2e0-4b37-8ec5-994d80e0c6cc
Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-08
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-08
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: research
Lifecycle: discontinued
Architectural position
Cohort: space
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for CIMON at North America.Common questions
- What is the CIMON deployment at North America?
- CIMON, built by Airbus, is recorded as a deployment at North America on the DEPLOY registry. Airbus operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates CIMON at North America?
- Airbus, the manufacturer of CIMON, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- Have there been incidents at the CIMON deployment at North America?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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