Selling Satellites Along a Space Silk Road
China's New Approach to International Space Cooperation
On 24 February this year, a Long March-2C launched an Egyptian remote sensing satellite, Horus-1 (荷鲁斯一号), from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The mysterious satellite had never been mentioned before in Chinese or English media (though it bears a strong resemblance to the planned MisrSat-II satellite, for which China gave US$45M). Just 17 days late…