China has big plans for the next 20 years...
China plans to build a unique Skynet-on-the-Moon surveillance system on the Moon to protect its lunar assets. This system will include millions of sensors and cameras, which will allow round-the-clock monitoring of the future Chinese lunar base.
The machine, inspired by its Earth counterpart Skynet, is primarily designed to track foreign visitors to the base and detect suspicious activity. The system will be based on the experience of creating and operating the world's largest video surveillance network Tianwan, with more than 600 million cameras, which provides coverage of almost the entire territory of China.
The system will be developed by the National Space Administration of China (CNSA) and the Center for Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering, together with colleagues from other research centers. These organizations play a key role in implementing China's lunar program and setting technical standards.
Each of the cameras will weigh about 100 grams. They will be managed by artificial intelligence that can independently identify, localize, track and target suspicious objects. Cameras delivered to the moon are automatically synchronized, providing continuous surveillance. They will be adapted to capture images at a long distance and in a wide-angle format, are able to self-correct and work independently when communication with the Earth is lost.
If "anomalies" are detected, the system will immediately generate alarms and initiate appropriate "response measures". Details of these measures are not specified.
The lunar station, the project of which was recently presented by scientists, will have a radius of more than 6 km. It will include facilities such as a command center, a power plant, a communications hub, research laboratories and a fleet of robots to support the research process, as well as satellites for remote sensing, navigation and communications.
China plans to build a unique Skynet-on-the-Moon surveillance system on the Moon to protect its lunar assets. This system will include millions of sensors and cameras, which will allow round-the-clock monitoring of the future Chinese lunar base.
The machine, inspired by its Earth counterpart Skynet, is primarily designed to track foreign visitors to the base and detect suspicious activity. The system will be based on the experience of creating and operating the world's largest video surveillance network Tianwan, with more than 600 million cameras, which provides coverage of almost the entire territory of China.
The system will be developed by the National Space Administration of China (CNSA) and the Center for Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering, together with colleagues from other research centers. These organizations play a key role in implementing China's lunar program and setting technical standards.
Each of the cameras will weigh about 100 grams. They will be managed by artificial intelligence that can independently identify, localize, track and target suspicious objects. Cameras delivered to the moon are automatically synchronized, providing continuous surveillance. They will be adapted to capture images at a long distance and in a wide-angle format, are able to self-correct and work independently when communication with the Earth is lost.
If "anomalies" are detected, the system will immediately generate alarms and initiate appropriate "response measures". Details of these measures are not specified.
The lunar station, the project of which was recently presented by scientists, will have a radius of more than 6 km. It will include facilities such as a command center, a power plant, a communications hub, research laboratories and a fleet of robots to support the research process, as well as satellites for remote sensing, navigation and communications.
