Hongyun (satellite system of Internet access)

2018: Start of the first satellite

At the end of December, 2018 China launched the first satellite for deployment of a global network of Hongyun which could provide Internet access in the most remote places. For launch of this satellite about 600 million Chinese live outside areas where there is an exit in the World Wide Web.

The carrier rocket Long March-11 launched the Hongyun-1 satellite which became the first of 156 low earth orbit satellites for global Internet access into an orbit.

Start of the first satellite for Hongyun network

The Hongyun project assumes the organization of a global system of broadband satellite communication based on the satellites working at a 1000-km orbit. Grouping will provide communication of Ka-range for providing broadband access in the Internet from any place in the world. After the first experimental satellite it is going to start four more devices by 2020. To the 2022nd want to launch all satellites.

The assistant department head of the space program of the Chinese corporation of space science and the industry (China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, CASIC) Beat Zhao says that the Hongyun system will differ in lower production and operating costs and a smaller data deference in comparison with the existing communication satellite networks.

Expansion of connectivities to the Internet of underdeveloped areas in China is considered extremely important for future growth of e-commerce and development of health care and education through Internet services which are available in the large cities of Celestial Empire. Initiators of the project at first want to connect to Network remote regions in China, and then and around the world.

Hongyun should provide the same Internet opportunities in the desert, the sea or even in flight as though the person was at home, said in the statement of CASIC.[1]

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