Xingyun 2-01 and 2-02

Satellite 2-01 is also named Wuhan

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General

Designation	45602 / 20028A 45603 / 20028B
Launch date	12 May 2020
Country of origin	China
Mission	LEO Telecommunications
Perigee/Apogee	557 / 572 km
Inclination	97.5°
Period	96 min
Launch vehicle	Kuaizhou #12

The first satellites will conduct tests on technologies including space-based IoT communications, inter-satellite laser communications and a low-cost commercial satellite platform.

Each satellite has a launch mass of 93 kg and its main payload is an L-band communication system and a trans-satellite laser communication package. The narrow-band data transfer rate is 2.4 - 9.6 kbps for uplink and 2.4 kbps for downlink.

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