China, which complained about Elon Musk to the United Nations Space Agency, stating that Starlink satellites were in danger of colliding with its own space station last December, decided to launch a 5G satellite to rival the company. announced that it plans to set up the network.
It will be the first of its kind
According to the news in China’s state press, a 5G network consisting of a total of 1000 satellites will be established within the scope of the project called GalaxySpace. While it is reported that the first batch of 6 low-cost and high-performance communication satellites has been produced and tested among these satellites, Zhu Kaiding, a space engineer from the Chinese Academy of Space Technologies working with GalaxySpace, says they are struggling to keep up with Starlink, which produces six satellites a day.
China’s GalaxySpace project We can say that it is quite small compared to Starlink, which has about 2,000 satellites in orbit today and plans to increase the number of these satellites to 42,000 with the completion of the project. However, the new project, which will be the first of its kind because it uses 5G technology, aims to offer speeds of more than 500 Mbps compared to the 110Mbps speeds of Starlink.
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