The computing power is awesome! my country’s space computing power network continues to “expand”

Imagine a scenario where in the future, a robot is performing an exploration mission in the desert. There are no base stations around, and it cannot carry a huge computing host on its own. How should it "think" when it encounters an unexpected situation and needs to make complex decisions?

The answer is: look up. In space hundreds of kilometers above the ground, a computing power network is responding to its needs.

This sounds like a plot from a science fiction movie, but with the construction of space computing power, this future of "the sky counts, the sky and the earth coordinate" is becoming a reality.

On October 14, Group 02 of the computing power satellites of the "Star Computing" project, the world's first space computing constellation jointly built by my country's commercial aerospace company and more than 100 domestic universities and research institutes, was successfully launched and completed its first networking. This marks that my country's space computing power infrastructure has entered a new stage of "large-scale deployment" from the testing period of "single point verification". With the addition of these eight satellites, the total on-orbit computing power of the entire "Star Computing" constellation has reached 50P, which is equivalent to 5 trillion operations per second in space.

In order to achieve flexible computing power deployment, these eight satellites have also been designed into a "cloud-edge collaboration" distributed structure. There are both high-computing power central node satellites and small computing power satellites focusing on edge computing. They can process tasks separately, or call the computing resources of the central node when needed to collaboratively complete more complex calculations, maximizing the efficiency of computing power utilization.

However, these 8 satellites are only the beginning of a grand project. According to the plan, the "Star Computing" plan will eventually build a space computing network woven from 2,800 computing satellites, covering land, sea, air and space around the world.

In order to send these thousands of satellites to space in a low-cost and large-scale manner, the development team created an industrialized system on the ground that "builds satellites like cars." They introduced AI-assisted design and 3D additive manufacturing technology, combined with modified industrial-grade devices, to achieve order-of-magnitude compression in the satellite development cycle that was often measured in years.

In May last year, the first constellation group 01 of the "Star Calculation" project successfully completed the in-orbit deployment of a general-purpose large model, passed the world's first OpenClaw space computing power call, and completed ground robot control across the sky and the earth.

In the future, this vast galaxy above our heads may also become a new base for "silicon-based intelligence" to serve mankind.

(CCTV reporter Zhang Peiling)