{
 "id": "three-body",
 "entry": 12,
 "name": "Three-Body Computing Constellation",
 "group": "ran",
 "class": "perception",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "Zhejiang Lab, with partners",
 "developer": "Zhejiang Lab",
 "host": "The constellation's first twelve satellites",
 "catalogue": null,
 "dates": {
  "launched": "2025-05",
  "ran": "November 2025 for the survey reported",
  "reported": "2026-02-13",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "not named",
 "software": "Ten models, including an 8-billion-parameter remote sensing model and an 8-billion-parameter astronomical model",
 "did": "Surveyed infrastructure from orbit over an area in north-west China, and classified gamma-ray bursts on two satellites.",
 "marks": [
  {
   "stage": "L",
   "evidence": 1,
   "basis": [
    "c1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "stage": "R",
   "evidence": 1,
   "basis": [
    "c2",
    "c3",
    "c4",
    "c5"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "c1",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "China placed 12 satellites, the first group of the space computing constellation called \"Three-Body Computing Constellation,\" into orbit in May 2025.",
   "speaker": "Xinhua, relaying Zhejiang Lab",
   "relation": "operator-via-state-media",
   "source": "xinhua-three-body",
   "url": "https://english.news.cn/20260213/f697fc260d66410398395307dd27443b/c.html",
   "source_title": "China demonstrates AI computing power in outer space with satellite network breakthrough",
   "publisher": "Xinhua",
   "source_kind": "news",
   "published": "2026-02-13",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "8-billion-parameter remote sensing model",
   "speaker": "Xinhua, relaying Zhejiang Lab",
   "relation": "operator-via-state-media",
   "source": "xinhua-three-body",
   "url": "https://english.news.cn/20260213/f697fc260d66410398395307dd27443b/c.html",
   "source_title": "China demonstrates AI computing power in outer space with satellite network breakthrough",
   "publisher": "Xinhua",
   "source_kind": "news",
   "published": "2026-02-13",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c3",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "with 99 percent accuracy",
   "speaker": "Xinhua, relaying Zhejiang Lab",
   "relation": "operator-via-state-media",
   "source": "xinhua-three-body",
   "url": "https://english.news.cn/20260213/f697fc260d66410398395307dd27443b/c.html",
   "source_title": "China demonstrates AI computing power in outer space with satellite network breakthrough",
   "publisher": "Xinhua",
   "source_kind": "news",
   "published": "2026-02-13",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c4",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "189 square kilometers in northwest China",
   "speaker": "Xinhua, relaying Zhejiang Lab",
   "relation": "operator-via-state-media",
   "source": "xinhua-three-body",
   "url": "https://english.news.cn/20260213/f697fc260d66410398395307dd27443b/c.html",
   "source_title": "China demonstrates AI computing power in outer space with satellite network breakthrough",
   "publisher": "Xinhua",
   "source_kind": "news",
   "published": "2026-02-13",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  },
  {
   "id": "c5",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "10 AI models",
   "speaker": "Xinhua, relaying Zhejiang Lab",
   "relation": "operator-via-state-media",
   "source": "xinhua-three-body",
   "url": "https://english.news.cn/20260213/f697fc260d66410398395307dd27443b/c.html",
   "source_title": "China demonstrates AI computing power in outer space with satellite network breakthrough",
   "publisher": "Xinhua",
   "source_kind": "news",
   "published": "2026-02-13",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in full"
  }
 ],
 "conflicts": [
  {
   "summary": "A third-party tracker says the constellation is \"reported to have run Alibaba's Qwen3\". Its link goes to a news index page, and no source for the statement was found.",
   "status": "unsupported; not recorded as a claim"
  }
 ],
 "notes": "The largest model reported run in space in this register. The only source read is an English-language report by a state news agency. Chinese-language sources were not read. A catalogue object (63982, SCS-01 A, launched 14 May 2025) may belong to this constellation; that match is another tracker's and was not checked, so it is not used.",
 "changed": null,
 "headline": "L1 R1"
}
