It seems that today there is no technological project that is launched that does not find some type of company, or directly and sometimes from the government itself, in China that offers a alternative that can even become much more real. Following this path, it seems that the country does not run out of both economic and human resources to undertake all kinds of projects, which are invested over and over again in getting the country to go a little further, serving, when the time comes, inspiration for the rest.
This time I want to talk to you about the latest news that comes from China, the same one in which we are told nothing less than how the country is more than interested in creating its own global satellite network with which to offer internet connection to all interested users. If the news itself seems to me quite interesting, especially because of the great challenge it poses on a technical level, it is even more so if we consider something as simple as the fact that it was not two weeks since SpaceX put the Tintin A and Tintin B satellites, which have been designed to carry out a program that, as we have been told, seeks to achieve this same objective.
SpaceX may have its main competitor in this project no less than the China Science and Industry Corporation
On this occasion, the news that China is also working on a project like the one SpaceX has begun to test comes to us from nothing less than China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. Specifically, this center has been in charge of unveiling through an official statement something as simple as the fact that, to this day, they have been working on a project with this objective for quite some time. Currently the state of the same is much more advanced than we can imagine, so much so that they have thought that the results will see the light for the first time in not too long.
Those responsible for its development, as you might imagine, have not wanted to go into too much detail so we do not completely know the exact dates that the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation can handle, although, according to its current president, Zhang Zhongyang, apparently they are in a position to send a satellite into low Earth orbit through which they can test their broadband technology, which, according to their estimates, should be capable of transmitting to a speed up to 500MB per second.
China plans to create a global internet network made up of about 5 satellites located in low Earth orbit
At the moment little or nothing is known about a project like this, especially if we take into account the secrecy with which all these works are usually carried out. As an anticipation, we do know that in the estimates it will be found to send this first satellite into space within just a few months, which will be followed by another four more in 2020. The idea, apparently and as has been revealed, is to have completed the whole platform with which to be able to give internet to the whole world in the year 2022.
As a final detail, tell you that what is truly peculiar about this entire project is that the China Science and Industry Corporation has decided that, instead of placing its satellites at an altitude of 36.000 km, the same height as other satellites, the Responsible for coverage and internet connection to the entire planet will orbit the Earth at just 1.000 km high. In statements of Zhang Zhongyang:
This will allow our users to enjoy broadband Internet service, regardless of whether they are in the desert, at sea, or on board an airplane.