Innovation Raytheon Spacecraft

Innovation Raytheon
Spacecraft name Innovation Raytheon (Thor Smart Satellite, Chuangxing Leishen, Chuangxing Raytheon satellite, Yuanguang, Tiansuan constellation)
Spacecraft type CubeSat
Units or mass 6U
Status Reentry 2024-09-07. Operational? (Press release on website on 2022-02-27)
Launched 2022-02-27
NORAD ID 51837 ?
Deployer Unknown
Launcher Long March 8 (CZ-8)
Organisation Spacety
Institution Company
Entity type Commercial
Headquarters China
Manufacturer AIVT by Spacety
Operator Spacety
Partners Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Oneliner

Carry out the preliminary verification of the Tiansuan Constellation and the satellite-ground fusion service platform.

Description

Payloads: Satellite-earth fusion network service platform
Research units: BUPT, BJUT

Functions:

  1. Satellite remote sensing inference system based on KubeEdge. BUPT
  2. On-orbit lightweight 5G core network V2 deployment test. BUPT.
  3. QUIC protocol on-orbit verification. BUPT.
  4. Lightweight satellite edge computing system. BUPT.
  5. On-orbit test of 6G core network cognitive service network elements. BUPT.
  6. Adaptive service supplying framework for satellite edge computing. BJUT

Objectives:
Carry out the preliminary verification of the Tiansuan Constellation and the satellite-ground fusion service platform.

Contributions:
Lay the technical foundation for the construction of an on-orbit open-source platform for space-air computing evaluation and provide technical support for the realization of comprehensive manufacturing facilities, 6G, and satellite Internet.

Highlights:
The world's first QUIC protocol on-orbit test verification.

Notes

The name Thor Smart Satellite comes from Spacety press release and other name seems to be the best match from Mike Zang post on NASASpaceflightt Forums.

Sources [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Photo sources [1]

Last modified: 2024-12-15

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