"Nebula Constellation Project" released, my country's space computing power network accelerates deployment

"Space Cloud" refers to a collaborative space-based cloud service system in orbit. It changes the traditional satellite model of "single satellite observation and data return to ground processing", allowing space-based resources to be called on demand and used immediately. At the 2026 Space Cloud Industry Ecological Conference held today (9th), my country's space cloud industrialization results such as the "Nebula Constellation Project" were released, marking a key step in my country's "space cloud" ecological construction from technical verification to industrialization layout.

The "Nebula Constellation Project" released this time is a full-stack domestic space computing power network jointly developed by the Aerospace Information Innovation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and domestic science and technology enterprises. It is a key project for the industrialization of the space cloud ecosystem. The plan covers the entire industrial chain from domestic computing chips to satellite applications. In the future, the project will rely on domestic research and development units such as computing chips, complete servers, satellite manufacturing, and satellite applications to build a full-stack domestically produced independent technology system from "core component development" to "constellation networking and application." The distribution forms a unified computing power network of "space and earth collaboration" to provide global space computing services for natural resources, disaster prevention and emergency, low-altitude economy and other scenarios.

According to experts, the plan will enable seamless integration and unified dispatch of computing power in space and ground in the future. Space will no longer be just a transfer station for data, but a first-level computing power node with equal status and complementary capabilities as the ground. Users can obtain space computing services on demand anytime, anywhere, just like cloud computing on the ground.

It is understood that at present, the technical level and number of my country's high-resolution remote sensing satellites in orbit have reached the international leading level, and the construction of high-throughput communication satellites has entered a period of rapid development. In the future, the "space cloud" can integrate various satellites such as remote sensing, communication, and computing power into an intelligent space-based information service system through technical means, realizing the leap from "functional single satellite" to "intelligent nebula". As the construction of a thousand-planet-scale "space cloud" ecosystem accelerates, the industrialization of the "space cloud" will greatly improve the comprehensive application efficiency of my country's space-based resources and provide strong support for the high-quality development of the national economy.