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IT Home reported on July 15 that China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation officially announced that on July 15, the first domestically-propelled communications satellite was launched. Asia Pacific 6E The satellite successfully passed the in-orbit technical acceptance review and the final technical acceptance review of the ground system in Hong Kong, marking the completion of the in-orbit test of the Asia-Pacific 6E communications satellite and its official entry into operation.

The Asia-Pacific 6E communications satellite was developed by the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The project is the thirteenth communications satellite in-orbit delivery project provided by its subsidiary China Great Wall Industry Corporation to domestic and foreign users. It is operated by Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Starlink Satellite Co., Ltd. and entrusted to Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Communications Satellite Co., Ltd. for measurement, control and management.APSTAR 6E communications satellite focuses on Southeast Asian market, providing cost-effective high-throughput broadband communication services to the region.

IT Home learned that the Asia-Pacific 6E communications satellite and independent propulsion module combination was successfully launched by the Long March 2C carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on January 13, 2023. After the satellite and the combination separated on January 23 of the same year,It can autonomously change orbit through its own Hall/ion electric propulsion system., it will reach the synchronous orbit on June 10, 2024 and be stationed at the test orbit.

The APSTAR-6E communications satellite is theThe world's firstA communications satellite that can fully autonomously transfer its orbit from low earth orbit (LEO) to geosynchronous orbit (GEO).