- China wants to bring its Skynet surveillance technology to a proposed lunar base
- The nation’s space agency wants to use it to protect it from ‘suspicious targets’
- Skynet currently has more than 600 million cameras throughout China
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China is planning to install an all-seeing surveillance system on the moon to protect a planned lunar base larger than Disneyland using the technology it uses to spy on its citizens.
The nation wants to use the “successful experience” of its authoritarian Skynet surveillance system to protect the planned base against “suspicious targets,” according to a research paper written by scientists at the nation’s space agency and published in an academic journal.
Skynet is the largest surveillance network in the world and is used to monitor every corner of China. With more than 600 million cameras, there is an average of one camera for every two adults in the country.
The lunar version of the program would see cameras equipped with AI chips “capable of independently identifying, locating, tracking and targeting suspicious targets” scan the proposed International Lunar Research Station.
China wants to use the “successful experience” of China’s authoritarian Skynet surveillance system to protect the planned base against “suspicious targets” (File Image)
‘China, together with Russia, plans to open a lunar research station on the Moon with a radius of almost four miles (File Image)
The cameras could work with both visible light and infrared light.
The paper’s authors, who also come from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and Zhejiang University, write that if the system detected “anomalies,” it would “rapidly generate alarm signals and initiate measures.” of appropriate responses. ‘
The worrying thing is that the document does not detail what the “measures” would be.
China, along with Russia, plans to open a lunar research station on the Moon with a radius of nearly four miles, larger than any Disney theme park.
The center will house a command center, power plant, communications center and research facilities.
China wants to start building the lunar base in the coming years and aims to establish a basic facility using lunar soil by 2028.
Ding Lieyun, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said a team is designing a robot called ‘Chinese Supermasons’ to make bricks from lunar soil, Chinese media reports.
Ding’s team previously proposed an egg-shaped base that could be built from earth bricks, called the Lunar Pot Vessel, which could be created using 3D printers and lasers and house astronauts.
“The construction of a habitat on the Moon is necessary for long-term lunar exploration, and will undoubtedly be carried out in the future,” Ding said, although he acknowledged the difficulty of achieving it in the short term.
The robot tasked with making the “lunar soil brick” will be launched during China’s Chang’e-8 mission around 2028, Ding said.
China also reportedly aims to recover the world’s first soil sample from the far side of the Moon during a mission that could take place as early as 2025.
The superpower previously recovered soil samples from the near side of the Moon with its Chang’e-5 mission in 2020, state media reported.
The country has stated that it wants its astronauts to stay on the Moon for long periods once it establishes a lunar research station.