China launched ten satellites aboard a Zhuque-2E Y4 carrier rocket on Wednesday. The launch took place at 7.40 pm local time from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwestern China.
According to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, the carrier rocket placed all ten payloads directly into their designated orbits. Eight of the spacecraft form part of the second group for the Star Compute project, developed by the commercial aerospace firm ADAspace. These eight satellites operate specifically in dawn-dusk orbits.
Each unit carries high-performance computing hardware, laser communication equipment, and low-light cameras to test several advanced technologies in space. These include 10,000-watt liquid-cooling systems and large deployable cooling structures. The mission will also test space-based laser communication networks and the direct training of artificial intelligence foundation models in orbit.
ADAspace stated that the mission would accelerate the technological development and commercial applications of space-based computing. The company plans to establish an orbital infrastructure network comprising 2,800 computing satellites.
The first group of twelve satellites for the project launched in May 2025. ADAspace announced in January that it had deployed Alibaba’s Qwen3 artificial intelligence model aboard its orbital network to enable direct space processing.
The commercial firm aims to establish a network of 1,000 satellites by the year 2030. The entire 2,800-satellite constellation is scheduled for completion by 2035.
