BEIJING – China has launched a low orbit earth satellite.
China’s first global mobile satellite communication and internet spaceproject via low earth orbit (LEO) satellites has been launched in southwestChina’s Chongqing Municipality.
The project has drawn an investment of about 20 billion yuan (about 2.9billion U.S. dollars) for its first phase, making it the largest investmentfor a single commercial aerospace program in China, according to the ChinaAerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which co-founded a company incharge of the project.
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The project features hundreds of LEO satellites and a global dataprocessing center, which can help realize global two-way communication inreal time under complicated geological conditions 24 hours a day uponcompletion.
