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China begins launching a megaconstellation, and it sounds a lot like Starlink (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good luck China. Without reusable rockets, this will be extremely expensive. It's certainly an issue that can be brute forced with spamming more rockets, but each launch won't be as cheap as it could be if you could reuse each rocket.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 2 points 2 months ago

They are testing them now, they claim they'll have reusable rockets in 2025 or 2026. Seems it's in their plan.