Two Satellites Deployed by China’s LandSpace This Week

A liquid-propellant rocket built by state-backed space venture LandSpace Technology Corp. successfully deployed two satellites into low-Earth orbit, underscoring Beijing’s heavily coordinated push to establish domestic satellite constellations. The liftoff of the modified Zhuque-2 vehicle occurred at the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Trial Zone this week, marking the eleventh successful launch engineered by enterprise clusters within Beijing’s state-managed Yizhuang economic development zone this year. The medium-lift launcher carried the Qianfan DTC01 and China Mobile 02 satellites into their predetermined orbits. One of the payloads was manufactured by GalaxySpace, an enterprise software and satellite builder also housed in the Yizhuang industrial…