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QIANFAN-5

Chinese Commercial LEO Broadband Constellation (Qianfan / Thousand Sails) · Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST)

Qianfan-5 ('Thousand Sails'), also known as SpaceSail or G60 Starlink, one of China's most ambitious answers yet to SpaceX's broadband dominance — a Shanghai-backed constellation explicitly modeled on Starlink's mass-production playbook. This satellite is manufactured at a Shanghai facility built specifically to mass-produce satellites at a rate of nearly one per day, a production philosophy borrowed directly from the same 'build it like a factory floor, not a lab' approach that let Starlink scale in the first place.