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The municipal government of Meishan in China’s Sichuan province has unveiled a sweeping aerospace initiative aimed at deploying 100 localized satellites and expanding a commercial orbital alliance to 1,000 active assets by 2030, intensifying the geopolitical scramble for low-Earth orbit remote sensing dominance. Announced this week at the Fourth Meishan Satellite Application Industry Development Conference, the “Hundred-Thousand Project” spearheaded by state-backed Huantian Smart Technology Co. Ltd. outlines a rapid procurement roadmap to build out a robust, vertically integrated space supply chain. The expansion builds upon Meishan’s existing Huantian Constellation, which currently operates 14 optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites…
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