China's Long March 8A orbits SpaceSail polar batch from Wenchang commercial pad, driving G60 toward 1,300 satellites The Shanghai-backed Qianfan constellation added a new polar-orbit group on July 5, one day after a Long March 6A placed 18 Qianfan satellites from Taiyuan; China is running two concurrent build-out tracks to challenge SpaceX's Starlink dominance The Long Game ·8 takes ·Jul 5