The first domestic mining remote sensing satellite "Mine University Nanhu" was successfully launched
On the afternoon of July 22, Sixiang Science and Technology Group A multi-source remote sensing satellite constellation press conference was held in Taiyuan. At the press conference, the launch plan of the "Mine University Nanhu" SAR remote sensing satellite, the "Hongkou Fuxing" optical remote sensing satellite and the "China Power Nongchuang" thermal infrared remote sensing satellite was announced.
🚀 Long March 2D Y91
🛰️ Lingxi-03, AS-01~03
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🏗️ Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
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CATCHING UP: CelesTrak has GP data for 6 objects from the launch (2023-104) of 4 satellites atop a Long March-2D rocket from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Jul 23 at 0250 UTC: english.news.cn/20230723/cfa39…. Data for the launch can be found at: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?INTDES=2023-104.
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银河航天预计7月底发射我国首款柔性太阳翼平板堆叠式卫星QuoteYinhe Aerospace expects to launch my country's first flexible solar-wing flat-panel stacked satellite by the end of July
From July 12th to 13th, the Ninth China (International) Commercial Aerospace Summit Forum was held in Wuhan, Hubei. The reporter learned from the forum that Yinhe Aerospace is expected to launch a new generation of stackable flat-panel satellites at the end of July - Yinhe Aerospace Lingxi 03, which will be my country's first flat-panel stacked satellite using flexible solar wings for a new generation of broadband communication satellites Technology in-orbit verification.
Flat-panel satellites, as the name suggests, are satellites shaped like a metal plate. The shape is quite different from common cube satellites and spherical satellites. The main feature is a flat shape, similar to a large laptop. Yinhe Aerospace Lingxi 03 star adopts this flat and open configuration, adopts industrial integrated molding technology and hollow load-bearing structure, this type of configuration is conducive to mass production, shortens manufacturing time, improves production efficiency, and reduces costs.
In the future, multiple flat-panel satellites can be neatly stacked layer by layer inside the rocket fairing, greatly utilizing the space inside the fairing and improving launch efficiency.
Zhang Shijie, Chief Scientist of Yinhe Aerospace, said that in recent years, the satellite Internet represented by the low-orbit giant broadband communication constellation has gradually emerged because of its advantages such as full coverage, high bandwidth, low delay, and low cost, and satellite communication is not affected by the geographical environment. , is becoming a new solution to global network coverage.
Zhang Shijie pointed out that with the accelerated promotion of satellite Internet applications, the satellite Internet will accelerate the deep integration and complementarity with the terrestrial 5G network, provide support for the ubiquitous network demand of the Internet of Everything in the 6G era, and effectively solve the Internet problems of users in remote areas, oceans, and aviation. The service issue is an important support for promoting the development of the digital economy and accelerating the construction of a space-ground integrated network.
He said that the current low-orbit mega-constellation presents a development trend of low-orbit, ultra-large-scale, and low-cost, and they are interconnected and mutually promoted, bringing satellite industrial mass production and manufacturing, low-cost satellite life cycle, popularization of satellite application services, satellite Industrial transformation in the four directions of the new form of operation model.
Zhang Shijie believes that in the future, as more types of satellites are launched into orbit, satellite applications such as direct connection of mobile phones to satellites and integration with industrial fields will continue to enrich, integrating the functions of communication, computing, perception, etc. A modernized network will push human society into the 6G era of global ubiquitous intelligent coverage.