China Encourages Exploration Progress By Launching 12 Supercomputer Satellites

Launch of supercomputer satellite (photo: ADA Space)

JAKARTA China has succeeded in making new advances in the space sector with the recent launch. The country has successfully launched dozens of supercomputer satellites into space.

Reporting from Spacenews, there are 12 satellites stationed in orbit. Although only a dozen, the satellite's capabilities are different from those of satellites in general due to more sophisticated data management capabilities. What's more, these satellites rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Dozens of these satellites were developed by ADA Space, Zhijiang Laboratory, and Neijang High-Tech Zone as part of the Star Compute program. In a post on WeChat, ADA Space explains that all of these satellites are able to process their data independently.

This is a new breakthrough because satellites usually rely on terrestrial stations. Interestingly, dozens of these satellites communicate with each other at speeds up to 100Gbps using lasers. They also share up to 30TB of storage.

Each of the two satellites has an AI 8 billion model capable of carrying out 744 tera operations per second (TOPS). All of these satellites can also manage 5 map operations per second (POPS). If it continues to be developed, the Chinese government can reach 1,000 PPS in the end.

Creating a supercomputer satellite is a good idea because scientists can save time studying the universe. By developing this model satellite, they can cope with slow satellite transmission.

According to the South China Morning Post, traditional satellites tend to have difficulty delivering data. In fact, this satellite is only able to deliver less than 10 percent of the data to Earth due to limited bandwidth and other shortcomings on land stations.

Therefore, the presence of a supercomputer satellite will bring many changes in exploring the universe. China is also targeting the launch of 2,800 future supercomputer satellites.