Engineers at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, have developed and deployed a software agent, NASA Engineering Shuttle Telemetry Agent (NESTA) to assist in the monitoring of data required for the successful launching of space shuttles. NESTA is a rule-based, autonomous software that reacts to the defined environment and communicates to the human. It communicates with various sources and data stores, and monitors the data stream patterns specified by the shuttle engineers. It uses Java Expert System Shell as its rule engine and its API provides standard control flow constructs and support variables, strings, objects, and function calls
