Not just writing, making pictures or animation, artificial intelligence or AI is now working in space research as well. China has sent a satellite into Earth's orbit for the first time, which has a large language model built on artificial intelligence technology.
The function of satellites in orbit is to send information to ground stations on Earth. Each satellite works differently. Some take pictures, some just collect weather data another sends a radio signal.
Based on this information, the instructions from the ground station have to be sent to the satellite. But this time, for the first time in the orbit, the artificial intelligence satellite made by China, which collects and processes various information and sends it to the earth.
On September 24, the artificial intelligence-equipped satellite, which was sent by a Smart Dragon-2 carrier rocket from a V center floating in the coastal city of Haiyang, East China's Shandong Province, has a large model AI, whose job is to send information to Earth without guidance from the ground. That is, the satellite is making decisions on its own. Meanwhile, the large model of the satellite has been successfully tested by the researchers of its manufacturer ADA Space.
Wang Lei, chief executive officer of ADA Space, said, "The amount of remote sensing data of the satellite is relatively high. It is multi-tasking through large model AI. Such as identifying a target, determining geographic features, and forecasting around an area.
From such satellite data, we will be able to discover mineral resources and do urban planning work faster.
No such AI satellite has been sent into orbit before. So, making sure the satellite worked properly was a big challenge for the ADA space researchers. Wang Lei also said that “it is easier to control energy, building structure, temperature, humidity, weight and other things on the ground than in space. The task of adding suitable boards, microchips, unit interfaces and protocols for the satellite was technically quite challenging.”
After putting such an AI satellite into orbit, the Chinese research team now has bigger goals ahead. They have taken up a plan to count stars using AI satellites. The company aims to build a 'mobile' network of 2,800 computing satellites by 2030.