CHINA PUTS AI COMPUTE INTO ORBIT WITH SUPERCOMPUTING-1 SATELLITE — ONBOARD PROCESSING AIMS TO CUT EARTH-OBSERVATION DATA PROCESSING FROM HOURS TO MINUTES

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China has launched nine satellites into orbit as part of a push to put AI computing in space. The Supercomputing-1 satellite that launched on the mission is designed to capture and process Earth-observation data in orbit instead of sending data back to terrestrial data centers. It features both a high-res optical payload and an image-processing AI computer. Local processing will cut cross-regional data processing times from hours to minutes.