China made another breakthrough in space technology - 14 The country launched May 12 satellites from the Three-Body Computing Contellation series, which will be the basis of the world's first orbital supercomputer. The start was made by LONG MARCH 2D rocket from Juzuan Space.
Supervisor - Real Time Data Processing in Space
The project is implemented by the Zhejiang Lab Research Institute with the participation of international partners. The main goal is to provide real data processing in orbit, eliminating delays, related to the transmission of information to the ground. In the future, this will allow space companions to perform complex calculations without the need for constant connection with land stations.
The goal is to increase the computing power to the supercomputer level
As Van Jian said, Academician of the Chinese Engineering Academy and Director Zhejiang Lab, The task is to increase the power of each satellite - from the level of teraflops to petaflops (ie trillion operations per second), as well as in organizing a high -speed relationship between satellites. This should create an analogue “Internet in space”, where each satellite acts as a node in a powerful distributed computer network.
The beginning of space cloud calculation
The first 12 devices provide a total power in 5 POPS (Petaoperatives per second) and 30 TV repositories, and are already able to perform calculations directly into orbit. One of the satellites is equipped with a X -ray polarization detector, which will be used to study gamma-palaces.
Zhejiang Lab already plans to deploy above 50 such satellites by the end of the year, And in the future - thousands of, that totally form a new level of autonomous space infrastructure.
Potential to transform the space industry
Successful creation of such an orbital computer network can be a turning point for the entire industry: Satellites will be able to perform artificial intelligence tasks, process large ranges from sensors in real time, work offline and provide cloud computing from space.
Source: https://interestingengineering.com/space/china-building-world-first-supercomputer-in-orbit