{"id":625414,"date":"2026-06-07T04:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625414\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:12:28","slug":"china-launches-space-computing-hub-as-spacex-gears-up-for-historic-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625414\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches space computing hub as SpaceX gears up for historic IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is ramping up its bets on <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-war\/article\/3354516\/cloud-above-clouds-us-china-race-make-space-computing-platform?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">space-based artificial intelligence computing<\/a> with the launch of a state-backed research institute in Beijing, accelerating a frontier tech race with the US just as Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX eyes a record-shattering US$75 billion market debut to fund its own orbital AI ambitions.The establishment of the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute marks a major step in the superpowers\u2019 AI rivalry, which is increasingly extending beyond Earth as terrestrial AI <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3352983\/beijing-pushes-ai-data-centres-adopt-green-energy-under-action-plan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data centres face energy bottlenecks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The facility was established in late May in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, a hi-tech hub known as E-Town that hosts many Chinese robotics and AI firms.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was launched by a consortium of backers led by the National Information Technology Application Innovation Park \u2013 a joint initiative established in 2019 by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Beijing municipal government.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A banner from China\u2019s private rocket company LandSpace, which is one of the backers of the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ec9639fc-cc26-4626-80a7-e1e031c8eb6e_4ad095a4.jpg\" title=\"A banner from China\u2019s private rocket company LandSpace, which is one of the backers of the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute. Photo: Reuters\"\/>A banner from China\u2019s private rocket company LandSpace, which is one of the backers of the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The institute would focus on cutting-edge research across space-computing chips, inter-satellite laser communication, space energy and space safety standards, according to a notice published on Friday by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology (BAST).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It aims to develop and launch a pilot satellite by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is ramping up its bets on space-based artificial intelligence computing with the launch of a state-backed research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[554,5713,212092,212089,891,77282,10419,26714,13202,4221,90,5752,416,412,56,54,55,741,212091,212090],"class_list":["post-625414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ai","tag-beijing","tag-beijing-association-for-science-and-technology","tag-beijing-economic-technological-development-area","tag-china","tag-galaxyspace","tag-guangzhou","tag-landspace","tag-ministry-of-industry-and-information-technology","tag-nasdaq","tag-science","tag-shanghai","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us","tag-wu-qi","tag-xingshu-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}