Hongyun 1

Means Rainbow cloud

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General

Designation	43871 / 18108A
Launch date	21 Dec 2018
Country of origin	China
Mission	Telecommunications
Perigee/Apogee	1070 km sun-synchronous
Inclination	99.9°
Period	106.6 min
Launch vehicle	Long March 11 #5

First of a planned constellation of 156 (later 864) satellites in LEO, to provide data transmission and AIS, ADS-B and DCS payloads. Announced by CASIC in 2016, called a broadband wifi distribution satellite.

Each satellite said to provide at 500 Mbps capacity

Not to be confused with Hongyan, a competing system.

sat-index articles

n2yo.com tracking

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