17 June 2019
A western luxury hotel brand is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army-controlled launch site. The space industry in China has generally been not so commercial, not so western, and pretty much austere. To envision an iconic American brand benefiting from the construction of such a launch site is counterintuitive. And yet, on Hainan Island, such an unlikely scenario has played out at China’s fourth launch site, Wenchang.
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17 June 2019
China Satellite Communications Company Limited - better known as ChinaSat - is by far the largest satellite operator in China. As the primary operator in what has been an effectively closed, monopolistic Chinese satcom market, ChinaSat can have a tendency to fly under the radar in the west, though this has started to change. With new satellites being launched in late 2019 and into the early 2020s, and with an increasing amount of capacity outside of China, ChinaSat is likely to start having a bigger impact on international markets in the coming years, for several reasons.
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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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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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