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China’s first open, shared commercial space TTC (tracking, telemetry and command) platform has gone into operation in Beijing’s Yizhuang, home to several leading commercial space companies, according to the Beijing edition of People’s Daily.
The platform is designed to let commercial space firms share ground infrastructure for satellite control and data exchange, instead of requiring every company to build its own costly facilities. As a national first, it is being billed as a model for shared infrastructure in China’s rapidly growing new-space sector, which has expanded sharply with the build-out of mega-constellations such as Qianfan (SpaceSail) and the GW constellation.
Yizhuang has long positioned itself as a regional hub for commercial space in Beijing. According to the report, the district plans to use the new shared facility to lower the entry barrier for smaller providers and further strengthen its position. The report does not name initial customers or detail the ground-station capacities on offer.
“Open” here refers to shared use by different companies, not to opening the market to foreign partners - commercial satellite operations in China remain part of a regulated industry. The report also leaves unclear the geographic reach over which the platform’s ground stations operate.