China's Space Program Thread II

[taxiya]

Sputniks

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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.

I think he meant Chinese "owned/bought" Russian made satellites. It is very likely a Russian satellite bus mounted with Chinese made 5G TR modules.

 

[Asug]

Why the rolling eyes? It isn't anything surprising.

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.

This is exactly what surprised me, that Roscosmos cannot provide launch of domestic satellites. Either there are no rockets for commercial customers, or it will be cheaper in China. And the legal issue of exporting Russian satellites abroad is not yet entirely clear.