From ground to orbit: China eyes computing in space
China's Adaspace Technology Co., Ltd. is building a 'star compute' network of 2,800 satellites to provide global AI computing services. The first group of satellites was launched in May 2025, with commercial operations planned by 2030.
Adaspace Technology Co., Ltd. (ADAspace), a commercial aerospace enterprise based in Chengdu, is accelerating its 'star compute' initiative in 2026. The plan involves building a network of 2,800 computing satellites, including 2,400 inference computing satellites and 400 training computing satellites. The first group of satellites was launched in May 2025, with the second and third groups in production and scheduled for deployment in 2026. ADAspace has completed multiple technical validations, including the world's first instance of using space-based computing power to control a ground robot and the in-orbit deployment of Alibaba's Qwen3 large language model. The company aims to start commercial operations by 2030 and complete the full network by 2035. The 'star compute' network will provide global training and inference computing capabilities, addressing the current computing power bottleneck faced by global AI development.
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