List Of Chinese Military Satellites

The chinese space program dates back to the 1950s.
List of chinese military satellites. China has 68 satellites set for military use. China launched its first military communications satellite in january 2000 as part of a people s liberation army command and control network linking forces for combat. China will launch more high technology space platforms including even higher resolution imagery satellites electronic signals intelligence sigint. This page is listing the military satellites.
Its technological roots can be traced back to the late 1950s when china began a ballistic missile program in response to perceived american and later soviet threats however the first chinese crewed space program only began several decades later when an accelerated program. Gunter s space page information on launch vehicles satellites space shuttle and astronautics military spacecraft china please make a donation to support gunter s space page. A parade of more than 40 warships of the chinese people s liberation army navy. The military operated satellites are named yaogan.
This is a list of satellites and spacecraft which have been given usa designations by the united states air force these designations have been applied to most us military satellites since 1984 and replaced the earlier ops designation. Yaogan 30d 30e and 30f were launched on november 24 2017. Select any military satellite listed to learn additional details perform live tracking or see satellite s passes visible from your location tracking 21496 objects as of 1 oct 2020 hd live streaming from space station. The satellites themselves were based on the chinese dfh 3 geostationary communications satellite and had a launch weight of 1000 kg each.
As of december 2018 usa designations have been assigned to 290 space missions. 42 unlike the american gps russian glonass and european galileo systems which use medium earth orbit satellites beidou 1 used satellites in geostationary orbit. A fleet of private satellites recently picked up an extraordinary sight in the middle of the south china sea. It is comparable to the soviet russian kosmos designation.
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