China plans to install ‘all-seeing’ CCTV cameras on the moon to monitor its space base

CHINA plans to install chilling all-seeing surveillance on the moon to spy on its citizens and protect its future moon base.

Skynet’s security cameras will reportedly be equipped with AI-powered chips that can detect and target “suspicious targets.”

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Skynet is the world’s largest surveillance network, with more than 600 million cameras currently used to monitor every inch of China.

The name comes from the Chinese proverb: ‘There is a net in the forever skywith large loopholes but does not let anything through,” meaning that the law is all-seeing and that violators will always face retaliation.

China’s plans to send Skynet to the moon stemmed from a desire to ensure the long-term stability and safety of the proposed International Lunar Research Station, according to a research paper written by scientists at the China National Space Administration.

The planned moon base, which is larger than Disneyland, has a radius of 6 miles and includes a command center, a current station, a communications center, scientific facilities and a fleet of robots.

It will even have its own satellites for remote sensing, navigation and communications.

China hopes to start construction of the moon base within the country next one and establish a base station based on lunar soil by 2028.

According to the article published in the Chinese academic journal Acta Optica Sinica: “The construction and operation of the optical surveillance system for the [International] Lunar Research Station can build on the successful experience… of China’s Skynet project.”

China’s lunar version of Skynet will include a large number of high-end security cameras – each weighing 100 grams – that operate in visible light and infrared zones. South China Morning Mail reports.

And AI-powered chips in the cameras will be “capable of independently identifying, locating, tracking and targeting suspicious targets.”

If “abnormalities” are detected, the system will “immediately generate alarm signals and initiate appropriate response measures.”

It is not known what the “response measures” might entail.

The system allows high-resolution, multi-camera live images of events – such as the arrival and departure of spacecraft carrying international astronauts – to be streamed to Earth.

All cameras should automatically connect to each other after arriving on the moon, allowing full coverage of the station.

Decision makers claim that certain areas within the station may require continuous 360-degree surveillance.

The article, co-authored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Zhejiang University and the space agency, emphasized that the lunar Skynet needs to be strengthened against potential external threats.

The authors wrote: “Ensuring confidential communications between the various optical sensing terminals and the central control hub poses a significant technical hurdle.

“The encryption techniques used for signal transmission and streaming media must be able to withstand the interference caused by the intense electromagnetic radiation prevalent in deep space. The data must not be damaged or stolen.

“It underscored the need to establish a new set of standards tailored to the unique operational requirements of space missions, ensuring the integrity and security of mass-produced optical surveillance terminals.”

Meanwhile, a team is working on a design for a robot that can make bricks from lunar soil, Chinese media report.

Ding Lieyun, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, previously proposed an egg-shaped base called the “Lunar Pot Vessel” to house astronauts on the moon.

It would be built with rocks on lunar soil, made with 3D printers and lasers.

Ding said: “Building a habitat on the moon is necessary for long-term lunar exploration, and will definitely be realized in the future.” future.”

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