What issues would an AI asteroid mining stations have to be prepared for?
Your company has just been contracted to develop a purpose built AI. The purpose of this AI is to control a mining station that will be anchored within an asteroid belt. The space station will be equipped with refining and construction facilities, docking bays for transport ships, and rudimentary defense capabilities.
The goal of your AI will be to maintain the highest rate of refined metal production to be sent to Earth via transport ships. So any issue which would impede or outright stop a station's ability to mine and refine metal from the surrounding asteroids needs to be corrected by the AI using the equipment on hand. Because of ... reasons ... software updates and physical upgrades will not be available after launch, so every (or at least MOST every) potential issue needs to be prepared for now, before launch.
The AI will control every part of this operation including the building of the transport ships and their navigation from the station to LEO (where they'll be emptied by manned crews).
What potential issues could impede the space station's production capacity that we will need to prepare the AI to handle?
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