China Launches Satellites For Global Internet Network From Sea For First Time<\/p>\n
China has successfully placed nine satellites into orbit from the sea in the world\u2019s first mobile sea-based launch of a low-Earth orbit broadband internet constellation.<\/p>\n
The satellites lifted off at 6:00 a.m. Beijing Time on Tuesday, September 16, 2026, from waters off the coast of Shanghai aboard the Gravity-1 Y3 launch vehicle. The mission was conducted by the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n
The payload included eight satellites from the Qianfan (Thousand Sails) constellation \u2014 Group 26 \u2014 which is part of China\u2019s project to build a global low-Earth orbit system for high-speed internet access, and one Enhanced Ultra High Throughput (EUHT) technology test satellite. All nine satellites entered their designated orbits.<\/p>\n
The flight set two new Chinese records for a single sea-based launch. The combined payload mass exceeded 3 tonnes, and the injection altitude reached about 800 kilometres, confirming the sea-launch model\u2019s capability for medium and large payloads.<\/p>\n
Gravity-1, built by Orienspace, is currently the world\u2019s largest and most powerful solid-fuelled rocket, with a maximum payload capacity of 6.5 tonnes to low-Earth orbit. This was its fourth flight and its second mobile launch from the Far East, coming just 56 days after its previous mission.<\/p>\n
The rocket demonstrated its ability to operate in challenging maritime conditions, including high temperature, humidity and salt fog.<\/p>\n
Development of the next-generation Gravity-2, a large reusable liquid-fuelled rocket with a payload capacity of 21.5 tonnes to low-Earth orbit, is also progressing and is expected to make its debut soon. #China Launches Satellites For Global Internet Network From Sea For First Time# Fitch Affirms China at \u2018A\u2019 With Stable Outlook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China Launches Satellites For Global Internet Network From Sea For First Time China has successfully placed nine satellites…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":["post-852105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}