Published: January 30th, 2025,
Last updated: January 30th, 2025
China’s flagship space project SpaceSail is on course for success. 18 satellites were successfully launched into Earth orbit from the rocket launch center in Taiyuan on Thursday. A race for the best satellite network has begun up there. SpaceSail plans to install at least 10,000 satellites by 2030 in order to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink. This is clearly also in the interests of the Chinese government, which wants to make China a „space superpower“ by 2045.