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Current Developments in Capabilities: China’s current developments involve on-orbit, launch, and ground segment capabilities. First, it is important to understand basic on-orbit capabilities in the following categories—satellite communications, satellite timing and navigation, ISR, environmental monitoring and disaster management, scientific and human spaceflight efforts, and offensive and defensive counter space.
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OOS would use a type of plug-n-play satellite module that could be removed and replaced on orbit, say, for extra battery life or an extended payload capability.
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The ORS concept is to provide rapid augmentation, reconstitution, and exploitation of space capabilities by facilitating rapid assembly, integration, deployment, and operations of space assets into the current space architecture. Through collaboration with the broader space community, ORS also explores new command and control, acquisition, business, and TPED processes for space technologies. For more on ORS, visit http://ors.csd.disa.mil/about-ors/index.html.
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Note Although Jiang was successful in divesting the PLA from business ventures, it is interesting to note that the telecommunications industry continued to have military guanxi. And, yet, whereas military involvement in business ventures was blamed for decreases in readiness and increases in corruption, the telecommunication industry is at the forefront of China’s successes in independent innovation.
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Information Office of the State Council of the PRC [4].
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本刊讯, “中国与美国首次主管部门间卫星网络协调会谈在北京举行 [5].
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For example, in Shanghai, recent work between the Czech Republic and China is looking into an experimental laser ranging system for space debris.
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Solomone, S. (2013). Top 10 Things to Know About China in Space. In: China’s Strategy in Space. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6690-1_9
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