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HONG KONG, April 20, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The Smart City in the 5G era is on the way, as the satellite industry pioneer,

Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group, Ltd. (HKATG), has launched its first

starlink project, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Golden

Bauhinia Satellite Constellation. The project is also the first satellite

starlink project in Hong Kong, which is dedicated to building smart cities in

the future. It centers on covering the Greater Bay Area, involves

rapidly-developing city agglomeration, and aims to achieve a dynamically

in-depth integration of urban informationization, refinement,

intelligentization as well as people-oriented sustainable development and

innovation to boost Hong Kong's economy.

The Golden Bauhinia satellite constellation is low-orbit, high-frequency

constellation, and its huge constellation can obtain the whole ecological life

cycle data of the entire city agglomeration. Moreover, the Golden Bauhinia

satellite constellation has a space resolution of 3 meters to Earth

Observation, with a spectral range between 400nm and 1000nm. Its orbit can

cover the entire Greater Bay Area once every two days, which is an area of up

to 56,000 sqkm.

For focused areas of observation, their satellite constellations can revisit

every 30 minutes to obtain up-to-date information. Coupled with the

high-resolution CMOS sensor camera ground pixel resolution 2m@500km, the single

image ground width is better than 54km.

In addition, satellite launches are no longer limited to countries and

industries, and more commercial satellite applications become feasible.

According to statistics, the global space economy in 2018 has reached 360

billion US dollars, and the satellite industry accounts for 77%. While

launching costs decreasing and the threshold for satellite manufacturing

lowering, the commercial space launch industry will become mainstream.

Speaking about the future development of the aerospace industry, Sun FengQuan,

HKATG's Chairman of the Board, said that the satellite constellation and the

market economy would be increasingly closely correlated to enable the

commercial space industry to quickly enter the racetrack. Upon this, he

believes that HKATG, the first enterprise to develop a satellite starlink

project in Hong Kong, will be on par with the world's top standards, benefiting

the Greater Bay Area and Asian companies, enhancing their competitiveness and

helping to build the smart city of the future.

Website: www.hkatg.com

Media contact:

Mr. Kwok

Tel: 852-25725008

SOURCE Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group