{"id":487903,"date":"2026-06-21T03:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T03:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:39:04","slug":"china-led-team-develops-ai-system-to-track-radar-disrupting-space-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487903\/","title":{"rendered":"China-led team develops AI system to track radar-disrupting space hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A China-led team has developed an AI system to detect <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/space?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">space<\/a> hurricanes, a phenomenon in the Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite signals, radar and radio communications.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the hurricane-like atmospheric phenomenon can have major space weather effects, detection has so far relied on a tedious process of studying satellite images manually.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team said it had developed a new deep-learning system that could automatically detect and pinpoint space hurricanes through ultraviolet images, which they said could be used to analyse data from a newly launched China-Europe satellite.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cA space hurricane is a recently discovered space weather event that appears as a massive, spinning aurora near Earth\u2019s magnetic poles,\u201d the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Space Weather on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>Space computing: what is it, why move computing into orbit and where does China stand?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The phenomenon is named after the tropical cyclones that occur in the north Atlantic and northeastern Pacific, which are the same weather phenomena as typhoons in the northwestern Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A China-led team has developed an AI system to detect space hurricanes, a phenomenon in the Earth\u2019s upper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[194855,1102,607,5302,3146,2024,17614,111,139,134839,69,244668,10088,244669,244670,147,244671,96013,1104],"class_list":["post-487903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ai-system","tag-aurora","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-earth","tag-europe","tag-european-space-agency","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-pole","tag-nz","tag-polar-ionosphere","tag-radar","tag-radio-communications","tag-satellite-signals","tag-science","tag-shandong-university","tag-smile","tag-space-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}