Technology driven demand is heating up, and space computing is entering an accelerated period of development
2026-02-06
Moving data centers into orbit, building space computing power networks, and turning satellites into "winged computers"... Currently, domestic and foreign enterprises and research institutions are accelerating the layout of "space computing power". Several interviewed experts stated that space computing is rapidly heating up due to factors such as the explosive growth of space-based data volume and unique energy supply advantages. The global space computing industry has entered a critical stage of substantive verification and initial deployment. However, its commercialization still faces multiple practical challenges such as key technologies, economic costs, and application scenarios. The industrialization of "day counting" has reached a critical point. Usually, satellites need to first transmit data back to the ground, and then the ground data processing center will analyze it. The so-called space computing is an emerging technological paradigm that deploys data processing, storage, and intelligent analysis capabilities to space orbit. Its essence is to migrate the functions of traditional ground data centers to space-based platforms, and build distributed computing nodes through carriers such as satellites and space stations, thereby achieving real-time processing and autonomous decision-making of in orbit data. ”Dr. Yang Lei from the Future Industry Research Center of CCID Research Institute said. From "calculating by days" to "calculating by days", behind the "sky high" computing power, it can be said that it is the result of the resonance of demand, technology, and capital in multiple aspects. On the one hand, with the exponential growth of global demand for artificial intelligence computing power, traditional ground data centers are facing bottlenecks such as high energy consumption, difficult heat dissipation, tight land use, and intensified environmental impact. On the other hand, the massive remote sensing data generated by low Earth orbit satellite constellations has far exceeded the carrying capacity of ground communication bandwidth, objectively forcing data processing to move towards in orbit. Building a space computing power system can not only effectively alleviate the downward pressure of interstellar data transmission, improve the timeliness and autonomy of space information services such as remote sensing, communication, and navigation, but also help to overcome the multiple constraints of energy supply, heat dissipation capacity, and deployment efficiency faced by large-scale computing power clusters. ”According to He Baohong, Chief Engineer of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Reusable technologies such as rockets significantly reduce launch costs, making large-scale deployment of in orbit computing facilities economically feasible. Moving data centers into orbit, building space computing power networks, and turning satellites into "winged computers"... Currently, domestic and foreign enterprises and research institutions are accelerating the layout of "space computing power". Several interviewed experts stated that space computing is rapidly heating up due to factors such as the explosive growth of space-based data volume and unique energy supply advantages. The global space computing industry has entered a critical stage of substantive verification and initial deployment. However, its commercialization still faces multiple practical challenges such as key technologies, economic costs, and application scenarios. The industrialization of "day counting" has reached a critical point. Usually, satellites need to first transmit data back to the ground, and then the ground data processing center will analyze it. The so-called space computing is an emerging technological paradigm that deploys data processing, storage, and intelligent analysis capabilities to space orbit. Its essence is to migrate the functions of traditional ground data centers to space-based platforms, and build distributed computing nodes through carriers such as satellites and space stations, thereby achieving real-time processing and autonomous decision-making of in orbit data. ”Dr. Yang Lei from the Future Industry Research Center of CCID Research Institute said. From "calculating by days" to "calculating by days", behind the "sky high" computing power, it can be said that it is the result of the resonance of demand, technology, and capital in multiple aspects. On the one hand, with the exponential growth of global demand for artificial intelligence computing power, traditional ground data centers are facing bottlenecks such as high energy consumption, difficult heat dissipation, tight land use, and intensified environmental impact. On the other hand, the massive remote sensing data generated by low Earth orbit satellite constellations has far exceeded the carrying capacity of ground communication bandwidth, objectively forcing data processing to move towards in orbit. Building a space computing power system can not only effectively alleviate the downward pressure of interstellar data transmission, improve the timeliness and autonomy of space information services such as remote sensing, communication, and navigation, but also help to overcome the multiple constraints of energy supply, heat dissipation capacity, and deployment efficiency faced by large-scale computing power clusters. ”According to He Baohong, Chief Engineer of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Reusable technologies such as rockets significantly reduce launch costs, making large-scale deployment of in orbit computing facilities economically feasible. (New Society)
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Source:Economic Information Daily
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