CX Daily: Is China’s Commercial Space Sector Ready to Blast Off?
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Cover Story: Is China’s commercial space sector ready to blast off?
On January 23, a Long March-6 rocket successfully launched 18 satellites into low Earth orbit, adding them to a growing constellation designed to deliver broadband internet from space.
This marked the fourth batch of satellites deployed for the Spacesail Constellation since its inaugural launch in August, bringing the number of operational satellites to 72. However, the project has far grander ambitions: to build a mega-constellation of more than 14,000 satellites in the coming years to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.
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