China's Space Program Thread II
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(Continued from above...)
Zhixing 2A, also known as SmartSat-X1, is a commercial synthetic aperture radar (X-band) satellite for disaster and marine environment monitoring, among other tasks.
An image of the Naval Station Norfolk taken by Zhixing 2A SAR satellite.
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Yet another horse has joined the race. ArkTech is a new startup aims to develop reusable launch vehicles, the details of which remain little known.
More information and update about ArkTech. The company is actively developing the Mammoth-1 LOX/Methane engine. Recently it successfully tested a injector design for the engine's pre-burner.
hmm... commercial Chinese launch companies are entering the Russian market.
"The Sputniks company intends to launch two test satellites into orbit in the summer of 2026, supporting the new 5G D2G direct cellular communication standard. The company expects the launch services operator to be the Chinese companies CAS Space or Galactic Energy, with one of which it plans to sign a contract this winter. The launch is scheduled for the summer of 2026."
"The Sputniks company intends to launch two test satellites into orbit in the summer of 2026, supporting the new 5G D2G direct cellular communication standard. The company expects the launch services operator to be the Chinese companies CAS Space or Galactic Energy, with one of which it plans to sign a contract this winter. The launch is scheduled for the summer of 2026."
Someone screencap this so we can laugh at this in 2 years like with that semiconductor tweet
Why the rolling eyes? It isn't anything surprising.hmm... commercial Chinese launch companies are entering the Russian market.
"The Sputniks company intends to launch two test satellites into orbit in the summer of 2026, supporting the new 5G D2G direct cellular communication standard. The company expects the launch services operator to be the Chinese companies CAS Space or Galactic Energy, with one of which it plans to sign a contract this winter. The launch is scheduled for the summer of 2026."
The satellites are to be launched from Hainan. Also since this is 3GPP D2G and Russia does not have 5G or 6G system supplier, the Russian sats will certainly be integrated in a network built by Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE etc. So I think Sputix is working as a component supplier in a Chinese driven infrastructure rather than Russian system.
Besides, I doubt Russian launching service provider namely Roscosmos have anything cheap enough to offer.
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Sputniks so I don't think it'd entirely qualify as "chinese satellite", but yes definitely possible it's for a chinese market and with chinese components.
Launch from "Hainan", so most likely Galactic Energy's upcoming Pallas launcher (unless the Solid launcher pad does get activated after all)?hmm... commercial Chinese launch companies are entering the Russian market.
"The Sputniks company intends to launch two test satellites into orbit in the summer of 2026, supporting the new 5G D2G direct cellular communication standard. The company expects the launch services operator to be the Chinese companies CAS Space or Galactic Energy, with one of which it plans to sign a contract this winter. The launch is scheduled for the summer of 2026."
Also I do wonder if the planned launches of the Bureau 1440 constellation are limiting soyuz launch opportunities for other customers in 2026-2027...