China gears up to compete with SpaceX's Starlink this year

China gears up to compete with SpaceX's Starlink this year

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

China’s military-industrial complex is set to start building its first constellation of very low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites later this year, the latest Chinese bid to catch up with US-based Starlink.