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Chinese satellite beams data at 1Gbps, surpassing Starlink speed by 5 times

Summary by South China Morning Post
Chinese scientists use ‘groundbreaking’ method to push data through turbulent skies from Space to Earth in less than five seconds.

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China was able to establish a laser communication between satellites and Earth at a speed of 100 Gbps. Compared to the Starlink system, SpaceX, it was possible to have 5x more internet speeds...

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PEKIN.— A team of Chinese scientists claimed to have managed to transmit data by laser from a geostationary satellite to Earth at a speed of 1 gigabit per second (Gbps), an advance that, according to those responsible, five times the speed of SpaceX’s Starlink system, local media reported on Wednesday. The experiment was carried out with a satellite located at about 36,000 kilometers of altitude and a 1.8-metre Earth telescope located in the sou…

A team of Chinese scientists claimed to have managed to transmit data by laser from a geostationary satellite to Earth at a speed of 1 gigabit per second (Gbps), a breakthrough that, according to their managers, quintuples the speed of SpaceX's Starlink system, local media reported on Wednesday. (Continue reading...) The entry China test satellite laser connection faster than Starlink was first published in Remolacha - News Dominican Republic.

The progress, according to the team of Chinese scientists, is translated into a five-fold faster link than that offered by the Starlink system, of SpaceX, by Elon Musk. The experience was performed with a satellite at a height of 36,000 kilometres and a land telescope located in the province of Yunnan, in the southwest of the country, reported today's South China Morning Post newspaper, based in Hong Kong. Technology was able to significantly re…

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A team of Chinese scientists claim to have managed to transmit data from a geostationary satellite to Earth at a speed of 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) using a laser of just 2 watts of power, a breakthrough that, according to their managers, five times the speed of SpaceX’s Starlink system. China’s entry tests a satellite laser connection five times faster than Starlink was first published in Digital Process.

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South China Morning Post broke the news in Hong Kong on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
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