https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0127/c90000-20419386.html

GuoXing Aerospace Technology, an aerospace firm, has uplinked the Alibaba’s Qwen3 large language model to its space-based computing center, enabling end-to-end reasoning tasks entirely in orbit. The center is based on a constellation of 12 space computing satellites.

In a trial, the Qwen3 model completed multiple experiments, with questions transmitted from Earth to the satellite, processed on-board, and results returned to ground stations — all within just two minutes.

Its second and third satellite clusters are expected to be deployed this year, with a 1,000-satellite network completed by 2030. The firm has announced ambitions to build a sprawling network of 2,800 specialized computing satellites by 2035. The planned constellation includes 2,400 inference satellites and 400 training satellites, deployed across sun-synchronous, dawn-dusk and low-inclination orbits at 500 to 1,000 kilometers altitudes. The constellation is designed to employ laser inter-satellite links to facilitate high-speed data transfer, aiming to deliver 100,000 petaflops of inference compute and 1 million petaflops of training compute worldwide.