Singapore’s first AI nanosatellite to be launched under S$200mil national space push

NTU’s Satellite Research Centre executive director Lim Wee Seng briefing his team of scientists and engineers. - Photo: NTU SaRC

SINGAPORE: 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.

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.