Chinasat

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Chinasat ( Chinese 中 星 ; Pinyin : Zhōngxīng; proper spelling ChinaSat ) is the brand name for communications satellites that are operated and marketed by the Chinese company China Satellite Communications (China Satcom). China Satcom is also involved in other satellite projects and leases satellites to other operators.

China Satcom currently operates nine satellites (as of March 2019): Chinasat 5A , 6A , 6B , 9 , 9A , 10 , 11 , 15 and 16 . The company's former or no longer active satellites include Chinasat 1A and 2C .

history

Chinasat originally stood for China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite , a company of the Chinese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, and its satellites. This satellite operator merged with other state-owned companies to form China Satellite Communications Corporation around 2000 .

In the course of further restructuring of the state satellite operator , the brand initially fell to China Direct Broadcast Satellite (China DBSAT), a newly established joint venture of China Satcom , its "member enterprise" ( subsidiary ?) China Orient Telecommunications Satellite and the state-owned company Sino Satellite Communications . In 2009 this joint venture was dissolved and China Satcom was subordinated to the state space company China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC); Sino Satellite Communications was now also subordinated to China Satcom . Satellites previously operated by the two subsidiaries have been renamed Chinasat. ChinaStar 1 (from China Orient) became ChinaSat 5A, SinoSat 1 became ChinaSat 5B and SinoSat 3 became ChinaSat 5C.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ China Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. China Satellite Communications Co., Ltd., accessed March 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Zhongxing / Chinasat . Federation of American Scientists. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ 关于 组建 中国 卫星 通信 集团公司 有关 问题 的 批复 ( Chinese ) State Council of the People's Republic of China. June 16, 2000. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ Overview . In: Corporate Profile . China DBSAT. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ 2007 Annual Report ( Chinese ) In: CASC . chinabond.com.cn. 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  6. ^ First Chinese Satellite Conglomerate Beams Into Operation . In: Xinhua News Agency , Space Daily, Jan. 2, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2010. 
  7. ↑ 中 星 5A ( Chinese ) China Satellite Communications. December 2, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ Zhongwei 1 (ChinaStar 1) → ZX 5A (ChinaSat 5A) → APStar 9A. In: skyrocket.de. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Sinosat 3 (Xinnuo 3) → ZX 5C (ChinaSat 5C) → Eutelsat 3A → Eutelsat 8 West D. In: skyrocket.de. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .