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Analysis-Chinese rivals to Musk's Starlink accelerate race to dominate satellite internet

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Beijing is investing heavily in rivals and funding military research into satellite constellations.

Shanghai -based SpaceSail in November signed an agreement to enter Brazil and announced it was in talks with over 30 countries.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos 's Project Kuiper internet service and Canada 's Telesat are also in talks.

China launched a record 263 LEO satellites last year , according to data from astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell .

China published a record 2,449 patents related to LEO satellite technology in 2023 , up from 162 in 2019 .

Many focus on cost-efficient satellite networks and low-latency communication systems.

Some of the Chinese research appears to be targeted at Starlink , with one PLA -linked patent application describing the U.S. system as critical to reconnaissance and military communications.

Beijing also developing tools to track and monitor Starlink 's constellation.

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