06 September 2019
On 23 August 2019, China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), and Indonesia PT. Satelit Nusantara Tiga (SNT) signed a contract for 13M RF front-end system for Ka-band Gateway to serve a new high-throughput satellite over Indonesia. Prior to this contract, on 27 June 2019, CGWIC signed the contract to provide 9M RF front-end system for C- and Ku-band gateways with PSN for Nusantara Dua Satellite (formerly PALAPA-N1).
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12 September 2019
On 12 September, China sent a the resource satellite, ZY-1 02D, and two small satellites, Ice-Pathfinder (also known as BNU-1) of Beijing Normal University and Taurus 1 of Shanghai ASES Spaceflight Technology Co. Ltd. into planned orbits from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre. They were launched on a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11:26 h (Beijing Time). ZY-1 02D will provide observation data for natural resources asset management, ecological monitoring, disaster prevention and control, environmental protection, urban construction, transportation and contingency management. Ice Pathfinder is dedicating to the observation of key channel area in polar region. The second small sat, Taurus 1 is designed and manufactured by Shanghai ASES Spaceflight Technology Co. Ltd. It is a satellite for in-orbit verification of de-orbit sun solar sail payload.
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12 July 2019
Hong Kong is one of the world’s truly global cities. Long an entrepot focusing on trade, starting in the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong became a center for regional broadcast, and in the 1990s, a center for satellite communications. Indeed, this city of under 8 million people is home to no less than 3 satellite operators (arguably 4), as well as the largest satellite service provider in the world (ABS, APT Satellite, AsiaSat, and arguably GapSat, and SpeedCast, respectively). Although many of the broadcasters have left Hong Kong for places such as Singapore, the satellite operators remain, and while they are putting less emphasis on the small, terrestrially-connected Hong Kong market, they are beginning to evolve in a satellite market that increasingly demands rapid evolution.
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19 July 2019
In the new era of science and technology with "unprecedented changes in a century", people have called for more leading innovations. At such a turning point, commercial aerospace industry has also achieved unprecedented rapid development. China’s commercial medium-size reusable rocket company, Galactic Energy, has just delivered a message which will bring more hope to this industry. Being reusable is the future. Who’s working on a Chinese version of Falcon 9?
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