Galaxy Aerospace's Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Internet Test in Thailand

TapTechNews May 21st news, Galaxy Aerospace stated that the company, together with its partner, Mahidol University in Thailand, has for the first time achieved the test and verification of a low-earth orbit satellite Internet broadband communication network in Thailand, which is also the first overseas application exploration practice of China's low-earth orbit broadband satellite Internet.

According to the introduction, Galaxy Aerospace has currently built a ground test station based on the low-earth orbit broadband Internet test constellation 'Little Spider Web' at Mahidol University in Thailand, including important parts such as mobile gateway stations and satellite communication terminals, and has achieved the test and verification of the low-earth orbit broadband satellite Internet communication network, and continuously observed the communication ability of satellite signals in the millimeter-wave band under local weather conditions.

TapTechNews learned from publicly available information that Galaxy Aerospace is a private enterprise focusing on low-earth orbit broadband communication satellite constellations, founded by Xu Ming, the co-founder/former president of Cheetah Mobile, and officially put into operation in 2018. Now its valuation has exceeded 10 billion Chinese yuan.

In October last year, Galaxy Aerospace successfully achieved the first domestic Terminal-to-Terminal (T2T) low-earth orbit satellite communication test on Lingxi 03 satellite.

According to the introduction, this test means that the communication between satellite ground terminals is directly carried out through the switching equipment on the satellite without going through the data transfer at the ground gateway station. In such a working mode, since the link of the gateway station transfer is omitted, the communication delay can be reduced by 50%, and at the same time, the flexibility and availability of the entire system can be improved.