China is implementing an orbital architecture inspired by Liu Cixin's defensive concealment strategy from his sci-fi novel, The Three-Body Problem.
The project focuses on massive shared storage, autonomous onboard processing, and resilient infrastructure for various applications like natural disaster management and environmental analysis.
Unlike other projects like Starlink or Amazon's Kuiper, China's approach emphasizes building an orbital cognition system rather than just connectivity.
The onboard specialized AIs are designed for real-time analysis of Earth systems such as climate data, geophysical changes, satellite imagery, and can trigger autonomous alerts without ground-based computation.