China launched the world’s first artificial satellite into space to test its 6G architecture, according to a report on Monday.
The satellite was launched by China Mobile, the world’s largest telecommunications operator, and was successfully placed into low orbit to “offer low latency and high data transfer rates.”
The satellite, which was launched into space along with a 5G satellite on Saturday, will “test 6G architecture” and will “use indigenous software and hardware, include in-orbit software restructuring, flexible deployment of core network functions, and automated “It supports management and improves system efficiency and reliability.” “In-orbit operation of satellite core network,” China Mobile said.
The autonomous 6G architecture was jointly developed by China Mobile and the Microsatellite Innovation Academy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Placing such satellites in low-Earth orbit will “expand the coverage of communication signals on terrestrial mobile networks and provide higher-bandwidth satellite internet services around the world,” the telecom giant said. .
Last October, Chinese scientists successfully tested in space a communications device that can “transmit optical signals from one place to another without converting them into electrical signals.”
The test was conducted by a team from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The technology, known as “spaceborne optical switching technology,” was sent into space by China’s Y7 carrier rocket last August.
In early November 2020, China sent the “world’s first 6G experimental satellite” into space.
The purpose of the 6G experimental satellite was to “verify terahertz (THz) communication technology in space.”
