  This document presents an initial approach to the investigation and
development of artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms in satellite
communication (SatCom) systems. We first introduce the nowadays SatCom
operations which are strongly dependent on the human intervention. Along with
those use cases, we present an initial way of automatizing some of those tasks
and we show the key AI tools capable of dealing with those challenges. Finally,
the long term AI developments in the SatCom sector is discussed.
