30 October 2018
China's first space router has been successfully launched together with the HY-2B marine satellite atop the Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province. The space router, designed and manufactured by the National University of Defense Technology, has already entered orbit. The router is one of the core requirements needed to build a "space-ground integrated information network," in a bid to provide Internet services for different users, as nearly half of people across the globe are yet to have Internet access, hindered by deserts, mountains, oceans or other natural environments.
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