China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
launched the world's first in-orbit artificial intelligence (AI) commercial
hypersatellite on February 3, 2024 from waters off the coast of Yangjiang City
in south China's Guangdong Province.
A Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket
blasted off at 11:06 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the launch site, sending a group
of nine satellites, including the AI commercial hypersatellite and a distant
retrograde orbit (DRO) satellite, into planned orbit.
The AI satellite is designed to carry out
on-orbit verification of the synaesthesia fusion AI algorithm once entering the
orbit, and will have remote integrated platform capability for future
communication networks.
