Long March CZ-6A • Qianfan

Long March CZ-6A • Qianfan

A Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) Long March (Chang Zheng) CZ-6A rocket will launch a batch of 18 satellites for the Qianfan Xingzuo (千帆星座, "Thousand Sails", formerly known as G60) internet constellation of Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST), a Chinese equivalent of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The sats are designated as Qianfan Jigui ?A–?R for the Qianfan Polar Orbit Group ?. - Each Qianfan satellite weighs 300 kilograms with a ‘flat pack’ design, with a single solar array, to fit as many satellites as possible inside the rocket fairing in two parallel stacks. For maneuvering in orbit, each satellite has an electric hall-effect thruster burning krypton to generate 20 millinewtons of thrust, with a specific impulse of 1,385 seconds. The initial tranche will use 1296 satellites. Ultimately, the Spacesail constellation will consist of more than 14000 low-orbit broadband multimedia satellites.

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