China has launched its first Guowang internet satellites into orbit, which are similar to Starlink.

These devices are the first of 13,000 satellites that a consortium of Chinese companies plans to build and launch over the next decade. The Guowang fleet will transmit high-speed internet signals with low latency in an architecture similar to SpaceX's Starlink network.

There have been almost no details released about the design of the Guowang satellites in China, except that they are intended to be used as relay stations for broadband internet.

In August 2024, China launched several dozen satellites from another satellite constellation called "Thousand Sails".

In the first phase, this constellation will consist of 1,296 satellites, half of which will be deployed by the end of 2025. In this configuration, "Thousand Sails" will provide high-speed satellite internet to China. This will be followed by the creation of a complete "constellation," which will include 14,000 satellites.