China is actively deploying the world's first large-scale satellite network to process data with the help of artificial intelligence directly in orbit. This project was named "Three-Body Computing Constellation" (Three-Body Computing Constellation).
Key achievements and plans:
First launch: In May 2025 ADA Space together with Zhejiang Lab put the first into orbit 12 satellite nodes.
Power: Each satellite is equipped with an AI processor (744 TOPS), and the entire initial group achieves productivity 5 POPS (Petaoperatives per second). This allows you to run large language models (LLM) with 8 billions of parameters right in space.
Speed: Thanks to laser communication channels with speed 100 Gbps satellites work as a single "space supercomputer", processing the data (example, satellite images) and transmitting the result to Earth in a matter of minutes.
Scale: To 2030 it is planned to create a network of 1000 devices, and do 2035 of the year — a full-fledged "Space Cloud" with 2800 satellites.
Energy efficiency: In space, data centers use solar energy and natural cooling (radiation of heat into the vacuum), which solves the problem of overheating of ground servers.
Saving traffic: Satellites analyze the images independently and send only important information to Earth (example, coordinates of the detected object), instead of transferring gigabytes of "raw" data.
Autonomy: In January 2026 In 2018, the Qwen3 large AI model was demonstrated in orbit, which performed complex logical tasks without the participation of ground control centers.
China sees this technology as critical to 6G networks and global dominance in space exploration.
Source: https://lookintothe.space