On December 14th, 2024, the Scientists' Innovation Conference was held in Xiong'an. At the meeting, several academicians and experts discussed the future development of the remote sensing industry, stating that promoting computing power to the sky will become a major trend in the industry's future development. Only by delivering valuable data to those in need as quickly as possible can the potential of the remote sensing industry be fully realized Li Deren, an academician of the CAS Member and the CAE Member, said in the report of the conference that in the near future, everyone is expected to "play" with satellites on mobile phones and use satellite data to meet various needs of life and production. Li Deren is leading the team to promote the construction of the "Oriental Insight" intelligent remote sensing constellation. The constellation plans to launch 252 satellites by 2030, providing remote sensing of the Earth from multiple angles, in order to better achieve the goal of "seeing quickly, clearly, accurately, comprehensively, and accurately". Li Deren said: "In order to achieve this goal, we need to put the processing work in the sky, and use artificial intelligence technology to turn satellite remote sensing big data into small data in the sky and directly transmit it to users' mobile phones." Wang Jianyu, an academician of the CAS Member, also believes that with the increasing resolution of satellite earth observation, the amount of data is also increasing. Sending all the data to the ground for processing, not only the amount of transmission is large, but also the timeliness of data application is affected. If artificial intelligence technology can be used in the sky to process data and then transmit it, it will definitely be of great help to the development of the industry, "he said. In September of this year, China successfully launched the world's first AI based large-scale scientific satellite into orbit. The R&D team transmits AI tasks to satellites through remote control commands from ground stations. Subsequently, the satellite successfully launched the AI large model through its high-performance computing payload and conducted operational tests. This experiment covers multiple temperature conditions and various task types such as inference and question answering. It is also the world's first AI model for satellite in orbit operation, successfully verifying the space adaptability, reliability, and effective computing power of the satellite computing platform. Not long ago in November, the R&D team released the "Star Computing Plan" based on this foundation. The "Star Computing Plan" will consist of a network of 2800 computing power satellites, which will be interconnected with over 100 computing power centers on the ground, to build an integrated computing power network between heaven and earth in the future. Wang Jianyu stated that building a computing power network in space is completely feasible in basic theory. The ground computing power network relies on fiber optic communication, while the computing power network in space mainly relies on laser communication technology. At present, this technology is still in the experimental stage and has not been widely applied, but it is developing very quickly with many innovative enterprises participating. Wang Jianyu believes that the spatial computing power network can take shape as early as the next two to three years. At present, there are still some specific engineering problems that need to be solved, especially the adaptability of related technologies in space. (New Society)