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Qianfan (Chinese: 千帆星座; pinyin: Qiānfān xīngzuò; lit. 'Thousand Sails Constellation'), [1] officially known as the Spacesail Constellation [2] and also referred to as G60 Starlink, [3] is a planned Chinese low-Earth orbit satellite internet megaconstellation to create a system of worldwide internet coverage.
A satellite internet constellation is a constellation of artificial satellites providing satellite internet service.In particular, the term has come to refer to a new generation of very large constellations (sometimes referred to as megaconstellations [1]) orbiting in low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide low-latency, high bandwidth internet service. [2]
The official English name of the system is BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. [22] It is named after the Big Dipper asterism, which is known in Chinese as Běidǒu (Chinese: 北斗). The name literally means "Northern Dipper", the name given by ancient Chinese astronomers to the seven brightest stars of the Ursa Major constellation. [23]
The 18 satellites sent into orbit this week appears to put Qianfan ahead of two other planned Chinese communications constellations in LEO. State-owned China Satellite Network Group’s Guowang ...
A Chinese state-owned enterprise is close to launching the first batch of satellites for a megaconstellation designed to rival U.S. company Space X's Starlink's near-global internet network, a ...
Rubbing of the Suchow star chart. Chinese star maps (simplified Chinese: 星图; traditional Chinese: 星圖; pinyin: xīngtú) are usually directional or graphical representations of Chinese astronomical alignments. Throughout the history of China, numerous star maps have been recorded. This page is intended to list or show the best available ...
The state-backed plan is one of China's answers to Starlink, SpaceX's growing commercial broadband constellation that has about 5,500 LEO satellites in space to provide near-global internet to ...
Tianlian (Simplified Chinese: 天链, Traditional Chinese: 天鏈, English: Sky Link) also known as CTDRS, is a Chinese data relay communication satellite constellation. The constellation serves to relay data from ground stations to spacecraft and rockets, most significantly China's crewed spaceflight program. The system currently consists of ...