ing Company, the other is O'Hare
research, development and launch of small satellites that would operate in low orbit and provide narrowband communications service, Tan told China Daily in an exclusive interview. Tan spoke on the sidelines of the▓ 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, to which he is a delegate."General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed that China's modernization drive will not succeed without the comp▓letion of informatization," he said. "Space-ba
Xpress LLC. They have
sed infrastructure is a pillar of the information industry. The new company would be tasked with forming a satellite constellation to boost space-based communicatio▓ns."Informatization is the development of an information-base▓d economy.The network would offer coverage to users at sea ▓or in remote regions that have poor access to ground-based communi▓cations services, according to Tan. He said the
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proposed firm would have a team of satellite designers but would procure others' satellites if they have better cost-performance ratios.Tan said Sanjiang also would continue to▓ improve the capabilities of its Kuaizhou-series carrier rockets, a major product of the company, and use them to acquire more commercial space contracts.In China, the commercial▓ space industry generally includes development and production of spacecraft not sponsored by the government as well as non-State launch activities. Wh
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ile China has a long history▓ of space exploration, commercial involvement in space is a new idea that is gaining popularity among State-owned space cont
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