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Qianfan (Chinese: 千帆星座; pinyin: Qiānfān xīngzuò; lit. 'Thousand Sails Constellation'), [1] officially known as the Spacesail Constellation [2] and also referred to as G60 Starlink, [3] is a planned Chinese low-Earth orbit satellite internet megaconstellation to create a system of worldwide internet coverage.
State-owned China Satellite Network Group’s Guowang constellation project aims for nearly 13,000 satellites, and leading private space firm Landspace’s Honghu-3 has plans for 10,000, according ...
Second batch of satellites for the 14,000-satellite Thousand Sails megaconstellation. [169] 15 October 23:45 [127] [171] Long March 4C: 4C-Y59 Jiuquan SLS-2: CASC: Gaofen 12-05: CNSA: Low Earth Earth observation: In orbit: Operational 18 October 23:31 [172] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 8-19 Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: Starlink × 20 ...
China says it launched a rocket Tuesday carrying a constellation of a reported 18 satellites as part of efforts to assert its presence in space. The satellites were carried aboard a Long March-6 ...
The space program of the People's Republic of China is about the activities in outer space conducted and directed by the People's Republic of China.The roots of the Chinese space program trace back to the 1950s, when, with the help of the newly allied Soviet Union, China began development of its first ballistic missile and rocket programs in response to the perceived American (and, later ...
SSST's plan is to launch 108 satellites this year, 648 satellites by the end of 2025, provide a "global network coverage" by 2027, and get to 15,000 satellites deployed before 2030.
The Hongtu-1 (Chinese: 宏图一号), known commonly by its English-language name PIESAT-1 and infrequently as Nuwa-1, is a Chinese commercial X-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) satellite constellation performing Earth observation missions in Sun-synchronous orbit.
Interested more in the military value recoverable satellites would provide, the committee accepted and tasked space physicist and engineer Zhao Jiuzhang (who is today known as the "father of the Chinese satellite program" for his work as the chief designer of China's first satellite, Dong Fang Hong 1) [10] to head the project. [9]