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A PRIVATE CHINESE SPACE COMPANY JUST SCORED FOREIGN CONTRACT FOR FIRST TIME

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Landspace China rocket private space launch

Xinhua News Agency

Rocket on a Truck

This Landspace 1 rocket can be carried on a truck for effective transportation, in order to move the launcher to precisely position nano-satellites in specific orbits.

A Chinese space launch company, Landspace, has won the first Chinese private space launch contract from a foreign company.

Gomspace Gomx-3 nanosatellite

Gomspace

GOMX-3

GOMX-3 is a collaboration between Gomspace and ESA. It's intended to test nano-sat technologies such as attitude control, RF sensing, and high-speed data downlink. It flew in 2016.

Founded by Tsinghua University, a prestigious Chinese university, Landspace is one of China's first private space launch companies. Gomspace is a Danish satellite builder, spun off from the Alborg University's nano-satellite research program. The pair's partnership is starting small, literally, with a nanosatellite project.


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