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S'pore's first Al nanosatellite to be launched under national space push
The Straits Times
|February 03, 2026
Scientists here will soon launch a small, lightweight "nanosatellite" carrying AI-powered edge computing, allowing it to analyse and prioritise information to be sent back to Earth, such as images unobscured by cloud cover.
NTU's Satellite Research Centre executive director Lim Wee Seng, seen here briefing his team of scientists and engineers, says intelligent satellites "can make decisions on board - filtering, analysing, and transmitting information, not just raw data".
(NTU'S SATELLITE RESEARCH CENTRE)
The satellite will be tested during a one-year mission the first of its kind for Singapore, led by the Satellite Research Centre (SaRC) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to evaluate its electronics performance and overall operational design.
Its artificial intelligence (AI) can be directed to prioritise cloud-free images or flag urgent events such as forest fires and oil spills, with only useful data relayed back to Earth.
Compact outputs sent by the AI-powered satellite - such as key coordinates, image analysis summaries and selected image snippets may comprise just kilobytes or a few megabytes of data, compared with raw satellite imagery that can range in size from hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes.
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