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Skynet 2.0: China plans to bring largest surveillance camera network on Earth to the moon to protect lunar assets


Chinese aerospace agencies outline how 600 million-camera Skynet inspires system to watch assets at lunar research station and track foreign visitors arriving on and leaving the moon.

To overcome these hurdles, Chinese scientists and engineers are leaning on their experience with the terrestrial Skynet project, where they have developed advanced technologies for efficient data transmission and processing under constrained bandwidths. In a notable incident in Changsu in Jiangsu province in October, several Yushan park administrators lost their jobs for posting a surveillance video online that showed a couple having sex in the woods. Despite their compact size, the lunar cameras are expected to perform myriad tasks, including capturing both distant and wide-angle views and they must be able to self-adjust and operate independently if communication with Earth is lost.

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