China has emerged as a global space power with the largest number of commercial and military satellite launches in recent years. The country has made significant progress in the field of space technology and has demonstrated its capabilities by launching a wide range of satellites for various purposes.
China became the world’s fifth country to send a satellite into space in 1970. Since 2010, the country has continuously increased its number and frequency of satellite launchings. China broke a record in 2018 by conducting 39 launch missions, ranking the first in the world and accounting for one-third of all launches worldwide, it said. The year 2018 marks out China as a leader, not a follower, in international space exploration, said Wang Chi, director of the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
China is fast becoming a major…
