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Cover Story: Is China’s Commercial Space Sector Ready to Blast Off?

By Huang Yanhao and Han Wei
2025年02月24日 08:00
China’s commercial sector has great plans for space but will investors let them get off the ground?

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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