@ChinaScience: China has begun deploying its first commercial constellation dedicated to space debris monitoring, with the first satel…
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China launched the first satellite of its Gande Constellation, a 120-satellite commercial network for round-the-clock space debris monitoring, aiming for full deployment by 2030.
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China has begun deploying its first commercial constellation dedicated to space debris monitoring, with the first satellite lifted off on Friday aboard a Lijian-1 commercial rocket from northwest China.
The Gande Constellation, a 120-satellite network that aims for round-the-clock all-orbit target detection, is expected to be fully deployed in three phases before 2030, achieving 100% coverage of high, medium and low orbits, with more than 200,000 effective detection arcs per day.
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