HELSINKI — China appears set to launch the first satellites for a long-expected national low Earth orbit megaconstellation after rollout of a Long March 5B rocket at Wenchang spaceport. Images […]

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China will utilize expected launch capacity from the country’s emergent commercial space sector to help realize its megaconstellation plans.

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The first satellite for a second planned Chinese low Earth orbit communications megaconstellation has been produced in new facilities in Shanghai.

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China launched a new internet technology experiment satellite from a sea platform Tuesday, apparently continuing tests for a low Earth orbit megaconstellation.

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China sent an undisclosed number of satellites into orbit Thursday to test satellite internet technologies.

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Chinese commercial launch firm Space Pioneer has announced a new round of funding for development of the Tianlong-3 rocket comparable to the SpaceX Falcon 9.

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A light-lift solid rocket sent an experimental “plate-like” stackable satellite into orbit late Thursday as the country looks to build its answer to Starlink. 

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China is looking to greatly expand its satellite launch capacity by mass producing a medium-lift rocket to help build a communications megaconstellation.

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China is preparing to launch its first satellites for a national low Earth orbit broadband megaconstellation to challenge SpaceX's Starlink.

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China’s response to Starlink and OneWeb first became apparent in 2020 in filings for a nearly 13,000-satellite megaconstellation with the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva.

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