{"id":152734,"date":"2026-06-10T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152734"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:00:06","slug":"starlink-rival-qianfan-hits-satellite-milestone-but-is-it-too-slow-and-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152734","title":{"rendered":"Starlink rival Qianfan hits satellite milestone, but is it too slow and costly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s Qianfan network has hit a national milestone by placing over 200 broadband satellites in orbit, but there are concerns its deployment could be too slow and costly.<br \/>\nThe constellation now has 201 satellites after a successful launch on board a Zhuque-2E rocket from the Gobi Desert at 4.23pm Beijing time on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe mission delivered Qianfan DTC-01 \u2013 a direct-to-cell test satellite \u2013 alongside a satellite from China Mobile, state broadcaster CCTV reported.<br \/>\nThe flight followed&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3356587\/starlink-rival-qianfan-hits-satellite-milestone-it-too-slow-and-costly?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s Qianfan network has hit a national milestone by placing over 200 broadband satellites in orbit, but there are concerns its deployment could be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}