China’s Effort to Build a Competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Off to a Bumpy Start

These requirements can soon be a serious problem for both Guowang and Qianfan. Last year, the trial is the clock for starting the invalid satellites and the ITU rules will have to send 10 percent of the space ships by 2026.

Compared to StarLink, both zodiac looks slow in making progress. Starlink was put into operation The first part of the first satellites In May 2019 and in the next two years in the next two years, the continuous rhythm, which reaches almost 2,000 satellites, McDowell says.

In particular, GUOWANG, since the first registered with ITU in 2020, when many observers expect many observers to have a very fast ramp, this government has a mandate, and the founder of Blaine Curcio, Blaine Curcio, which focuses on the Chinese spacecraft.

Guowang or Satnet was one of the first satellite companies to move a high-level movement near the Chinese government, as a high-tech city of the Chinese government, as a high-tech city of the future. Curcio says the gardens in the government can also lead to bureaucratic obstacles. The company is headed by administrators from major state enterprises, which is likely to be a more traditional and above management style. “They are not going to move fast and break things,” he said.

Although Qianfan is also the state support from Shanghan’s municipal government, experts hired experienced heads of the financial and business sectors, so it is hired more than Guowang.

But now there is a serious glass that insults both projects: the availability of the rocket. Although China has a large number of missiles every year, it should be shared between satellites for navigation and distant part of various projects. More importantly, China has no operating missiles that are still important to Starlink to protect the fast and economic release cadinity.

This year for Qianfan rocket suppliers demanded two government procurement requests this year, but has declared both failures because they do not receive a sufficient bidder. Although there are several Chinese commercial companies working on the development of recyclable missiles, none is ready for the main time. “In the next few years, we will start to see the buttleneck solution, but it is also possible to stay a very important glass,” Curcios.

Starlink alternative

Guowang and Qianfan seem to target different markets to the day, which is directly fled to compete with each other. Guowang, which is more central government support, can be tasked with the use of the national security element. Taiwan’s military exercises around the island reported that Guowang worked in the territory and provides intelligence that Chinese missiles can directly direct the potential for potential strikes in the Western Pacific Ocean report Published last month by the Atlantic Council.

On the other hand, Qianfan places itself as an opponent to starlink for the international market. Representatives of Qianfan Presented at the Space Industry Conference Last year, China has already operated on the market in China: Brazil, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. In 2025, including countries in 2025, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Argentina and African countries, he said he planned to enter them.