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China Satcom plans to order two additional, larger HTS satellites with a hoped-for first launch in 2021 and a second launch in 2022, targeting approximately 150 Gbps for the first and around 200 Gbps for the second.
China Satcom plans to launch a cluster of Hongyan satellites 2018, to launch six more next year, and to eventually deploy more than 200 satellites in the constellation.