Tag: Remote Sensing Satellites
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China’s Ceres-1S Launches First Wuyang Constellation Satellite From Sea (Video)
China launched the first satellite of its domestically developed Wuyang low-inclination remote-sensing constellation at 11:39 a.m. Beijing time on Oct. 21, 2026. The spacecraft, Xiguang-4 01, lifted off aboard a Ceres-1S Y8 rocket from a mobile platform in the Yellow Sea off Rizhao, Shandong province, and entered a 541-kilometer low Earth orbit. The mission marks…
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From Remote Sensing Satellites to Intelligent Satellites: A New Direction for China’s Commercial Space Industry
As the commercial space industry enters its second half, the satellite applications market is increasingly driven by cost efficiency and is, in turn, pushing upstream remote sensing satellite manufacturers toward a new paradigm of integrated sensing and computing. China has now entered the era of intelligent satellites. Why has onboard intelligence become a necessity for…