Brazil is looking to attract Chinese space sector to launch from Brazil for the G60 Qianfan project
China's Space Program Thread II
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I think the cooperation can start with ground stations, all these space based network have to connect to the internet by gateways (ground stations). UE on board a ship in the south atlantic would be better (bandwidth and latency wise) reaching its destination by touching ground in Brazil instead of making many hops through small sattelites. Considering Brazil's land size, getting Brazil onboard is getting the whole south America covered.
There is also just the matter of comparative advantage. Just because you can do something yourself does not mean it is always better to do it that way, otherwise nobody would ever eat at restaurants or buy clothes, because everyone is capable of cooking and making their own clothes.
The ground station that I am talking about is related to satellite communication as data relay. The station in Argentina is for space tracking which has to be on the western coast of south America in order for China to have close to full coverage of the whole sky. Even with the Argentinian station there is still a gap, moving anywhere east would increase that gap. For redundancy, Chili or Peru would be better choise than Brazil, but I don't know if they are any more reliable and stable than Argentina.
What is China's legislation on this? Is it possible to export satellites and rockets to other countries?
Would it be affected in case a change of gov in Brz?
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