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China plans global eal-time communications satellite network

Submit on Thursday, December 15th, 2016 22:56

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. plans to build a global real-time communications satellite network by 2020, a senior company executive said. Sun Weigang, chief engineer at CASC, said the Hongyan satellite system will be composed of 60 small satellites operating in low orbits and 20 ground stations around the world.

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