10 December 2015
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) contributed to China's successful launch of "20 satellites in one rocket" of "Long March 6" on 20 September 2015. PolyU and Aerospace Dongfanghong Development Ltd. Shenzhen jointly developed a microsatellite platform and a deployment system that was successfully applied to "Kaituo-1B", an achievement to bring low-cost aerospace technology to a wider range of civil uses. The newly developed microsatellite platform conforms to the CubeSat standards, and CubeSat is a kind of microsatellite.
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