China Plans Big Production of Small Satellites

[lovuian]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=570&e=8&u=/nm/20041215/sc_nm/space_china_satellites_dc

China Plans Big Production of Small Satellites

Tue Dec 14,11:56 PM ET Science - Reuters



BEIJING (Reuters) - China, which put its first man in orbit last year, has built a national engineering and research center for small satellites, paving the way for large-scale production, state media said on Wednesday.






The center had a designed production capacity of six to eight small satellites a year, the People's Daily said.


"It is the largest small satellite development and experiment base in the world at present," Xinhua news agency quoted an official with the center as saying.

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Wake up America the Space Race is being challenged by China!!!

[Maple]

1. Too late

China has already put people in space.

They're planning a moon and a Martian base now.

[daleo]

2. GPS satellites?

Bushco was making plans to be able to shut of the world's GPS. China may not agree.

[steely]

3. sounds interesting - could you expound please

whiie somewhat possible, I don't think that would serve anyones interest since there is a major civilian application / dependence thses days.

edit : spelling

[daleo]

4. There was another thread about this yesterday.

That thread has the article linked to it. Many people mentioned that this would interfere with civilian applications as well.