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China Files over 200,000 Satellite Frequency, Orbit Applications with ITU

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China has submitted applications to the International Telecommunication Union for frequency and orbital resources covering more than 200,000 satellites across 14 satellite constellations, according to information published on the ITU's website.

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A collision of satellites at 27,000 km/h would pulverize the infrastructure, generating thousands of fragments of shrapnel that would destroy even more satellites. China has submitted plans to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to launch more than 200,000 internet satellites. This unprecedented number aims to compete directly with the Starlink service from the American company SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, which Beijing accuses of sat…

For the Olympus of reporting, which can only be achieved by compulsory contributions, what you can read on Space News is not a message: China has just submitted applications to the ITU, the International Telecommunications Union, for two satellite networks, each of which is supposed to include 96,174 satellites. The approximately 190,000 satellites come to already existing 14,300 satellites,...

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Electronics Weekly broke the news in on Tuesday, January 13, 2026.
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