Shanghai "Star Pivot Plan" releases the first constellation.

On July 18th, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, the iconic space digital infrastructure project "Stellar Axis Plan" was officially unveiled. The ceremony was jointly organized by the WAIC Organizing Committee and Fudan University. As a key layout project in Shanghai's space computing industry, the project is positioned as Shanghai's flagship space computing constellation project. The constellation consists of three satellites, with the core being the direct processing of data in space to reduce reliance on ground equipment. According to the plan, the project will be implemented in phases: the verification phase will launch 2 computing satellites and 12 edge computing satellites; the commercial deployment phase will expand to 50 computing satellites and 100 edge computing satellites; and eventually complete deployment of thousands of satellites. In the future, it will provide space computing and remote sensing services for meteorology, emergency response, natural resources, and other fields, driving over one hundred upstream and downstream companies in five years, with the potential for the related industry's annual output value to exceed one trillion yuan. The constellation will also provide meteorological and remote sensing computing services to countries participating in the "Belt and Road" initiative to support cross-border disaster monitoring.