17 June 2019
The space industry’s biggest fundraising story over the past 5 years has been the enormous increase in the number of constellations aiming to offer broadband services from Low Earth Orbit (LEO). While most of the funding has gone to western constellation companies, China has been eyeing these developments with some interest, and a handful of Chinese companies have emerged aiming to offer a similar constellation business model. Who are these Chinese LEO constellations?
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WestEastSpace.com is a newly established content distribution platform. The published articles reflect on news and trends in the space industry, highlighting companies, new technologies, and people. A special focus is on the Asian market and Asian national space programmes.

17 June 2019
The Chinese space industry has a long and storied history with the Chinese government—specifically, it was almost entirely government-owned until 2014. As an indication of its state-ownership, almost all significant Chinese space companies are headquartered in Beijing, with most of them headquartered in the Western half of the city.
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WestEastSpace.com is a newly established content distribution platform. The published articles reflect on news and trends in the space industry, highlighting companies, new technologies, and people. A special focus is on the Asian market and Asian national space programmes.

12 September 2019
Professor Yang Yuguang of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation talked with CGTN's Elaine Reyes about the latest achievements, and future prospects, of China's space programme. He summarised the status of Chang'e 4, including the known facts about the substance found by Yutu 2. Prof. Yuguang congratulated India on the accomplishments with Chandrayaan 2. At the end of the interview he briefly touched on the topic of Chinese private space efforts.
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16 September 2019
Pakistan plans to send its first astronaut to space by 2022 with the help of its close ally China, Minister for Science and Technology has said. The selection process for the astronaut would start in 2020, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on 15 September. China would collaborate with Pakistan in its space mission, Fawad was quoted as saying by the News International reported.
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