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A satellite called “Xiong’an Star” (雄安星) has been carried into space, according to the People’s Daily. The report focuses on the naming: the satellite bears the name of the new city of Xiong’an in Hebei Province, which has been under development as a national zone since 2017 and is being built as a model for a modern, intelligent and green urban area.
Xiong’an is not a conventional city in the usual sense: the special zone has for years been developed as a pilot project for future urban technologies, including intelligent transport, energy and communications systems. The newly launched satellite, according to the paper, is part of that concept. It is intended to take on Earth-observation and communications tasks and to deliver data that can feed directly into the city’s digital infrastructure.
The People’s Daily places the launch in the broader context of China’s space development but does not link it to a specific launch vehicle type or a particular commercial provider. What is clear is that the city government aims to signal with the naming that Xiong’an wants to be present not only on the ground but also technologically in orbit. The launch coincides with the celebrations for the city’s anniversary.
The article gives no precise technical details about the payload or its orbit. It emphasizes above all the symbolic and economic-policy dimension: naming a satellite after a Chinese city is not unusual in China, but here it underscores the link between urban development and space technology that Beijing promotes as a strategic priority.