[Starlink] China launches satellites to start building the world’s first supercomputer in orbit

[Starlink] China launches satellites to start building the world’s first supercomputer in orbit

[Hesham ElBakoury]

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China has launched into orbit 12 satellites, each equipped with intelligent
computing systems and inter-satellite communication links, aboard a Long
March 2D rocket, according to local reports. The satellites are part of the
Three-Body Computing Constellation, space-based infrastructure being
developed by innovation platform Zhejiang Lab which, once complete, would
support real-time, in-orbit data processing with a total computing capacity
of 1,000 peta operations per second, according to the reports.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3310506/china-launches-satellites-start-building-worlds-first-supercomputer-orbit

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[Starlink] China launches satellites to start building the world’s first supercomputer in orbit

[Inemesit Affia]

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Any talk about computing in space is a waste of space. I've always been sceptical

If you're in LEO sending the data to servers on the ground and back again doesn't add enough latency to matter. And if latency is an issue the end user devices now have enough compute.

Always think about where the heat goes.

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Re: [Starlink] China launches satellites to start building the world’s first supercomputer in orbit

[Eric]

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On Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 09:44, Inemesit Affia via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> Always think about where the heat goes.

Exactly, no mention of the cooling solution they've implemented, which is by far the biggest challenge in any space-based compute.

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Re: [Starlink] China launches satellites to start building the world’s first supercomputer in orbit

[Michael Richardson]

Eric via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
    >> Always think about where the heat goes.

    > Exactly, no mention of the cooling solution they've implemented, which
    > is by far the biggest challenge in any space-based compute.

https://archive.org/details/chickenfromminsk00cher/page/50/mode/1up
explains:
  "The frictionless trolley is an achievement of the Party and modern
  socialism"

(If you haven't read the above book, it's lots of fun.  So is the older "Aha!
Insight")


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