Breakthrough success, finally turning the impossible into the possible! China's version of Starlink is accelerating comprehensively.

One rocket, ten satellites successfully networked! The "national team" has proven to be exceptional.

With a "boom" from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, the Long March 5 rocket ignited and successfully delivered the low-orbit 08 group of satellite internet satellites into their designated orbit.

(China launched the Long March 5 rocket at the Wenchang Launch Center, successfully sending China's version of "Starlink" satellites into their designated orbit)

The "stars" in this one-rocket-ten-satellites mission are actually what we commonly refer to as China's version of "Starlink."

After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Russian military quickly destroyed the Ukrainian military's communication system. Seeing this, the United States immediately sent Starlink to the front lines, helping the Ukrainian military establish a powerful network support and distributed combat system.

This intelligence advantage made many countries realize the importance of Starlink. Therefore, many countries have started investing heavily in such satellite constellations.

For example, India is planning to invest 12 billion rupees to build its first commercial domestic Earth observation satellite constellation, aiming to enhance India's independent capabilities in commercial applications in the aerospace industry and reduce reliance on similar systems from other countries.

Germany is also doing the same, planning to build a satellite constellation that can replace America's Starlink, so that it can firmly grasp technology and control autonomy. In fact, this is a consensus across the entire European Union. A report shows that the EU urgently wants to get rid of its dependence on American satellite technology.

(Compared to satellite constellations being built or yet to be built by other countries, China started laying out early, and now the number of Starlink satellites in orbit has reached 94.)

At this time, China's foresight becomes evident.

Compared to other countries, China's version of Starlink started layout early, and now it has completed eight network deployment launches, with 94 satellites in orbit.

It is worth noting that since entering July, the overall launch speed of China's version of Starlink has been continuously accelerating, with the shortest interval only 72 hours.

According to the plan, the number of launches this year will reach 648. Now that half the year has passed, China still has 594 satellites to launch. It can be imagined that in the coming months, China's version of Starlink will bring more good news.

Behind this, it not only tests China's single satellite capability, but also the production capacity issue.

In 2025, China first added the four words "commercial spaceflight" in the report, clearly regarding it as a strategic new quality productivity, and planned to focus on building the full industrial chain of rockets-satellites-data, and fully accelerate the construction of China's version of Starlink.

On this basis, China realized the importance of production capacity, so it gathered a large number of scientists to form a research team. Thus, within just one and a half years, they successively completed core technologies such as in-orbit flight, multiple satellites per rocket, and satellite structure.

(The US builds a "Space Eye," integrating Starlink satellite groups, drones, and ground radar to create a global space monitoring system)

Taking the new process "integrated satellite flat panel technology structure" as an example, China's research team boldly innovated, abandoning the traditional honeycomb board splicing wooden main structure, and instead interlaced 18 flat panel structures, finally locking them layer by layer to create a "thousand-layer tower" capable of withstanding rocket launches.

After that, the research team worked tirelessly to "reduce costs and improve efficiency" for satellite launches, developing a new solar panel array structure, compressing the wing assembly efficiency to the extreme, and achieving an annual output of 120 sets. This truly turned the "impossible" into the "possible," overturning the advantages of the American Starlink satellites.

It is clear that China has made up its mind to make "Starlink" work well.

The United States naturally does not like it, even publicly announced the "Space Eye" plan, preparing to mobilize early warning aircraft, satellites, drones, and radars to "keep an eye on Chinese skies," during which Starlink is a core part.

But China's strength lies in never being "one-sided." It always carries out offensive and defensive operations simultaneously, ultimately building an "offense-defense integrated" countermeasure system: for example, submarines that can fire lasers, or multi-layer orbital deployment, whose survival capabilities are formidable.

In summary, the United States could never have imagined that once they were proud of, Starlink, is no longer a patent. China's version of Starlink is rising to the challenge, gradually changing the balance of power, reshaping the power equilibrium, and pushing the world from a "unipolar" to a "multipolar" direction.

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