05 October 2020
SpaceWatchGlobal is reporting that China is pushing ahead with developing a giant Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation competing with SpaceX, Amazon and OneWeb. SpaceWatchGlobal is quoting the Washington DC-based analyst Bhavya Lal and California State University’s Professor Larry Press. Press, professor of information systems at the California State University, mentioned a recent Chinese spectrum filing in a blog of the CircleID website. China “has filed a spectrum application with the International Telecommunication Union for two constellations with the cryptic names GW-A59 and GW-2” for a total of 12,992 satellites, Press said. “We heard about an announcement of a constellation with nearly 13,000 satellites,” Bhavya Lal confirmed.
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