China Mobile, the world’s largest carrier by mobile phone subscribers, launched the world’s first satellite to test 6G architecture, marking a milestone in its efforts to explore integrated space and ground communications technology.
Last week’s launch included an important milestone in satellite technology, China Daily reported. The test satellite deployed in low Earth orbit incorporates her innovative 6G design architecture, resulting in breakthrough results. Another accompanying satellite also showcased China Mobile’s advanced 5G technology.
The 6G test satellite will host a distributed autonomous architecture for 6G jointly developed by China Mobile and the Microsatellite Innovation Academy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The system leverages indigenous software and hardware and supports in-orbit software restructuring, flexible deployment of core network functions, and automatic management, ensuring efficiency and reliability of in-orbit operations of satellite core networks. China Mobile said.
These experimental satellites are located at an orbital altitude of approximately 500 kilometers and offer advantages such as lower latency and higher data transfer rates compared to higher orbit satellites that travel at 36,000 kilometers.
According to China Mobile, low-orbit satellites are positioned as a key platform for future space-ground integrated networks, addressing the communication signal coverage gap in terrestrial mobile networks and bringing higher-bandwidth satellite internet services to the world. It is said that it can be provided inside.
China Mobile said it plans to conduct in-orbit experiments based on these test satellites and accelerate the integration and development of the technology industry from space to the ground.
