On July 18 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference forum Future Computing, Future Compute, Shanghai released the inaugural constellation of its flagship space digital-infrastructure project, the StarHub Plan. The project is positioned as Shanghai’s benchmark space-compute constellation: engineering verification will launch 2 compute satellites and 12 edge-computing satellites; commercial deployment envisages 50 compute satellites and 100 edge-computing satellites; full commercial operati

On July 18 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference forum Future Computing, Future Compute, Shanghai released the inaugural constellation of its flagship space digital-infrastructure project, the StarHub Plan. The project is positioned as Shanghai’s benchmark space-compute constellation: engineering verification will launch 2 compute satellites and 12 edge-computing satellites; commercial deployment envisages 50 compute satellites and 100 edge-computing satellites; full commercial operation targets a 1,000-satellite constellation.