Abstract
Over more than half a century, China’s space industry has created a unique program tailored to China’s conditions, achieved successful human spaceflight and lunar exploration projects, established a complete and necessary system for research, design, production, and testing, substantially upgraded its overall level of space technology, enhanced the economic and social benefits of space applications, and obtained numerous innovative results in space science. This chapter briefly introduces the development of China’s satellite programs. It covers the beginning and evolution of Chinese satellite programs and provides an overview of the different satellite programs: Earth observation, communication and broadcasting, navigation and positioning, and scientific and technological test satellites. The chapter also addresses the future of the Chinese satellite programs and China’s international space exchanges and cooperation.
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The author acknowledges the contributions of experts from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
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Hou, S., Liu, H. (2015). Chinese Satellite Programs: An Internal View. In: Schrogl, KU., Hays, P., Robinson, J., Moura, D., Giannopapa, C. (eds) Handbook of Space Security. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2029-3_33
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