A constellation Of 2,800 satellites with Artificial intelligence on board and capable of work on the net like a huge spatial supercomputer: is the goal of Chinese Star Computing programwho put the first 12 satellites from the Three-Body Computing Constellation. The project is of the Ada private company and is conducted in collaboration with the Zhejiang Lab Research Center. At this moment it is the most advanced of the similar projects, which tend to do SuperComputer and IA there New frontier of spacein a challenge also undertaken by the United States and which also features Italy in Europe.
“It is the good time to plan how we can make the most of the IA for space, not only on our laptops or smartphones,” the director of the Zhejiang Lab, Wang Jian, told the Chinese press. “The space – he added – again became the border on which we must think and plan the next 10, 20 or 50 years “.
It is in this long -lasting perspective that the Chinese star computing spatial program is inserted, which aims to create one Maxi constellation of satellites capable of working on the net like a great supercomputer. To either put the first piece of the project in orbit, called the-Body Computing Constellation, it was the long 2D gear rocket which from the Jiuquan launch center in the northwest of China brought 12 satellites equipped with a supercomputer able to perform in orbit in orbit 744 million millions of operations per secondi.e. 744 teraflop, and one memory from 30 Terabytes. A much higher calculation capacity compared to that of the computers present on the satellites today.
THE’objective main is reduce enormously the amount of data that must be transmitted to the ground because the images taken by the satellites will come processed on board of the satellite itself. This is the so -called ‘edge computing’, i.e. the possibility of processing information directly to the source, in this case on board the satellites, so as to reduce the volume of the data to be sent and not unnecessarily overloading the data centers.
The second purpose is to build the basis of a wider and ambitious projector Connect the satellites togethereach fueled by photovoltaic panels, through a system of laser For organize a Supercomputer network in orbit. Being very cold, space is an ideal environment for data centers, which require a lot of energy for the cooling.
Final objective of the Star Computing program is to get to a overall calculation power Of At least 1,000 petoflopi.e. just under half of the most powerful current terrestrial supercomputer, but without requesting energy from the earth.
More generally, the IA in space is one challenge Which is involving many European spatial realities including the Italian D-Orbit, which together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2022 had created an experiment in orbit 10 months long to test images analysis methods, with the IA, directly in space. Just the ia on board the satellites will also be able to open the doors to the so-called in-orbit services, i.e. the presence of automated satellites capable of collaborating with each other and providing for example maintenance services, for example refueling, or repairing damaged satellites.
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