China launched the world’s first artificial satellite into space “to test 6G networks,” state media reported.
The satellite was launched by China Mobile, the world’s largest telecommunications operator, and was successfully placed in low orbit to “offer low latency and high data rates.”
The satellite, launched into space along with a 5G satellite on Saturday, will “test 6G networks” and will “use native software and hardware, rebuild software in orbit, and improve core network functionality.” “It supports flexible implementation and automated management, improving network efficiency and reliability.” “Satellite Core Network in Orbit,” China Mobile announced.
The autonomous 6G network was jointly developed by China Mobile and the Microsatellite Innovation Academy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Placing such satellites in low-Earth orbit would enable “extended coverage of communications signals on terrestrial mobile networks, providing higher-bandwidth satellite Internet services around the world,” the communication said. Ote stated.
Last October, Chinese scientists successfully tested in space a communications device that “can send optical signals from one place to another without converting them into electrical signals.”
The test was carried out by a team from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The technology, known as “space optical switching technology,” was sent into space by China’s Y7 rocket mothership in August last year.
Prior to this, in November 2020, China launched “the world’s first 6G experimental satellite” into space.
The experimental 6G satellite was intended to “validate terahertz (THz) communications technology in space,” the AA wrote.
