Really worried about the effect of all these constellations on astronomy and space fairing. There will no doubt be collisions, and that could make getting to space much harder if not impossible to do safely.
China's Space Program Thread II
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So it's really only 10 satellites for this big long march 5B rocket. Qianfan is launching 18 sats on much smaller rocket, I think we need more info what was the reason for the biggest rocket to launch, maybe the first satellites are different to the ones that will follow
Video of launch:
"China successfully sent a new group of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Tuesday. The satellites will be mainly used for SAR imaging with high-resolution capacities. "
"China successfully sent a new group of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Tuesday. The satellites will be mainly used for SAR imaging with high-resolution capacities. "
Another video angle of the GW internet sat launch recently.
Maybe each one has massive through-put. Considering Qianfan already exist it does make sense for Guowang to consist of smaller number of higher capacity, higher orbit satellites, rather than just duplicate Qianfan.
Or maybe Guowang is just piggybacking on a main classified payload.
by78
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Already posted, literally in the post immediately above yours.